THE 200 inch telescope on Palomar Mountain has recently been used for a detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the globular clusters associated with the Andromeda nebula. This ...
The study measured where and how fast 77 of Andromeda’s compact star clusters—called globular clusters—are moving to work out where they came from. Even when the Milky Way and Andromeda ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Globular clusters like this one, Omega Centauri, are very dense groupings of up to a million stars ... [+] in a sphere ...
The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...
with a dark matter halo and a cloud of globular clusters surrounding it. Countless galaxies familiar to readers and observers ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...
is the sky’s second-brightest globular cluster. So, the four stars in the 9–12 Geminorum Cluster are 9, 10, 11, and 12 Geminorum. Their magnitudes are 6.3, 6.6, 6.9, and 7.0, respectively.