Quick Verdict Out of the box, there’s plenty the Meta Quest 3 gets right, but comfort isn’t one of them. Having used the ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

NGC 1786’s mixed-age stars suggest globular clusters aren’t one-generation wonders, offering fresh clues to galaxy formation far beyond the Milky Way.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe M4, the wonderful globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. You can use the Scorpion's ...

Globular clusters are freakishly old. Of the approximately 150 of them within the Milky Way, the very youngest are no less than 8 billion years old, while the oldest are almost 12 billion years ...

A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as a satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

Enigmatic globular clusters. Astronomers know that some of the Milky Way's stars were born in the galaxy itself, whereas others were formed in smaller galaxies that the Milky Way eventually engulfed.

Globular clusters are densely populated masses of stars, usually found orbiting the centre of galaxies. They contain hundreds of thousands of stars and until now, ...

Globular clusters are an ancient relic of the Early Universe. During this period of time just after the Big Bang, the universe was a “hot soup of particles” or protons, neutrons, and electrons.