globular clusters
M55 — Or a Swarm of Angry Bees?
[/caption] Globular clusters are my absolute favorite telescope targets. Okay, Saturn, and then globular clusters. And that's why I've absolutely…
Two New Globular Star Clusters Discovered By VISTA
[/caption] Where there once was 158, there is now more... Globular clusters, that is. Thanks to ESO’s VISTA survey telescope…
Globular Clusters on a Plane
[/caption] Globular clusters are generally some of the oldest structures in our galaxy. Many of the most famous ones formed…
Globular Clusters and the Age-Metallicity Relation
[/caption] Globular Clusters have a story to tell. These dense clumps of thousands of stars are relics of the…
New Look at an Ancient Swarm of Stars
[/caption] Globular clusters form during the earliest stages in a galaxy’s development, so clusters like this one, M 107, or…
Hubble Predicts the Future of Omega Centauri
[/caption] Using four years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, astronomers have made the most…
The Black Hole/Globular Cluster Correlation
[/caption] Often in astronomy, one observable property traces another property which may be more difficult to observe directly; X-ray activity…
Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole
NGC 1399, an elliptical galaxy about 65 million light years from Earth. Credit: NASA, Chandra A dense stellar remnant has…