The constellation Hercules contains two of the finest globular star clusters visible in the Northern Hemisphere: M13 (below) and M92 (not shown -- yet!). Each contains several hundred thousand stars, ...

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

Some of the stars are almost as old as the universe itself, such as NGC 6397. In each globular cluster, all stars formed simultaneously from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has approximately ...

From the images we identify 60 other candidate compact star clusters in NGC 4449. Fourteen of these could be background elliptical galaxies or old globular star clusters. Of the star clusters, three, ...

112, No. 776, October 2000 Spectroscopy of Giant Stars in the Pyxis... Spectroscopy of Giant Stars in the Pyxis Globular Cluster This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT ...

T Corona Borealis is a dim star in a constellation, which is finally near exploding, making it the brightest it has ever been ...

The transmission consisted of a simple, pictorial message, aimed at our putative cosmic companions in the globular star cluster M13. This cluster is roughly 21,000 light-years from us, near the edge ...

This magnificent object — the sky’s 10th-brightest globular cluster — is visible to sharp-eyed observers under a dark sky without optical aid. It lies in an incredible star field 3.7° west ...

Anyone spotting a globular star cluster like M13 for the first time through an amateur telescope will recognize a fascinating white spot, which at first glance could also be a comet without a ...

Astronomers know these blobs of stars as globular clusters, and they've been trying to decipher exactly how these stellar ...