Globular clusters are dense groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit galaxies such as the Milky Way. Their stars are highly consistent in age and chemical composition and show ...

Astronomers use simulations to discover how globular clusters form and reveal a new type of star system near the Milky Way.

New simulations suggest globular clusters form in multiple ways and point to a mysterious new type of star system that may ...

Research teams from the UK, USA, Sweden, and other nations have successfully unraveled the origin of globular clusters, a puzzle that has troubled astronomers for centuries, through high-precision ...

An Einstein cross is a phenomenon where a distant object appears as multiple images arranged in a cross-like pattern around a foreground galaxy. A fifth image in the newly discovered cross reveals the ...

For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and densest star systems ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary view of star birth in the Pismis 24 cluster, revealing its dust-scape sculpted by massive infant stars. Located 5,500 light-years away in ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its beautiful images highlighting the intensity ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from the University of Florida and elsewhere have performed infrared ...

If "chaos is a ladder," then brilliant stars forming from discordant gas and dust are the ultimate example of that. The James Webb telescope has imaged one of the more dramatic stellar nurseries in ...