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Imagine trying to understand how a football game works based on just a few fuzzy snapshots of the game in play. Astronomers have faced this challenge when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the ...

Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

How do stars form and evolve inside globular clusters? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers conducted a ...

Looking out into the Milky Way, it's possible to see all sorts of strange cosmic structures — tentacle-like spiraling arms of stars in the outer regions of the galaxy, dark clouds of gas and dust that ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that these dense balls of stars have survived and remained unchanged for billions ...

The Milky Way is chock-full of star clusters. Some contain just a few tens-to-hundreds of young stars. Others, known as globular clusters, are among the oldest objects in the universe and contain up ...

There is little I love more than gazing at a glittering globular cluster through a big, juicy Dob. The larger the mirror, the better! Each cluster looks a little different, and resolving individual ...

Globular clusters, among the oldest bound stellar systems in the Universe, offer a unique laboratory for understanding stellar evolution and dynamics. Traditionally considered simple stellar ...

Comparison of traditional velocity dispersion and pulsar timing methods (left) versus the HiVel ejection from globular clusters method (right) in the search for IMBHs. Recently, Associate Professor ...

There is little I love more than gazing at a glittering globular cluster through a big, juicy Dob. The larger the mirror, the better! Each cluster looks a little different, and resolving individual ...