This Hubble Space Telescope image shows rich detail in a pair of star clusters 166,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), in the southern constellation Doradus. This striking Hubble ...

The Quadrantid Meteor Shower peaks on January 3-4, 2025. This event can produce up to 120 meteors per hour. It is best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere, but observers in India can also catch some ...

Visualizations of well-known stellar streams in the Milky Way can be found here. Astronomers discovered that the spur and gap features of the GD-1 stellar stream cannot be easily attributed to the ...

What If Our Solar System Was a Globular Cluster? Posted: January 10, 2025 | Last updated: January 10, 2025 "Culture Quest explores the world of pop culture, history and thought-provoking ideas! We ...

The Milky Way belongs to this class, as well as our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Globular clusters are often mentioned in the same breath as galaxies, so they deserve a nod.

Scientists have described a series of shark bite incidents in the area since 2023 as a bite "cluster" — a phenomenon that has been observed around the world. When three fatal shark attacks ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the 1,675 newly constructed flats for the dwellers of JJ clusters and also hand over keys to eligible beneficiaries at Swabhiman Apartments in Ashok Vihar, ...

“These central galaxies are surrounded by a number of faint dwarf galaxies.” “We believe these two galaxies are in the process of merging, based on X-ray observations that revealed a ‘rope’ of ...

Researchers believe these two galaxies are in the process of merging, based on X-ray observations that revealed a 'rope' of globular clusters along the peak area of light between them. This may be ...