Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you ...

The differences in location between open and globular star clusters result from the interplay between gravity and rotational motion. This rotational motion is called angular momentum, and is a ...

Greetings stargazers. While gazing at stars is fun, gazing at groups of stars is even more fun. The more the merrier. There ...

The cluster contains hundreds of loosely bound stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of stars sparkle against the dark ...

Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from Chile have inspected a young open cluster known as NGC 6383. Results of the new study, presented in a paper published March 1 on the pre-print ...

Hubble continues to deliver gorgeous images of the universe. One of the latest images the space telescope has captured is that of an open star cluster called NGC 2002. This cluster is located around ...

More than 1,100 open clusters inhabit our Milky Way Galaxy, some bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Several contain bothersome oddities. Let’s confine this to current, bright, late winter ...

Modifying gravity: Pavel Kroupa and colleagues have shown that Modified Newtonian Dynamics does a good job at describing the properties of open clusters of stars. (Courtesy: Volker Lannert/University ...

BERKELEY — A detailed survey of stars in the Orion Nebula has found that fewer than 10 percent have enough surrounding dust to make Jupiter-sized planets, according to a report by astronomers at the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sprays of tiny diamonds against the black velvet sky, occasionally sprinkled with gems of ruby or ...