Globular clusters (GCs) are spherical collections of tightly gravitationally bound stars. They contain from tens of thousands to millions of stars and investigating them could help us better ...

Discover the unexpected complexities of globular clusters and their role in stellar evolution and age determination. Click to learn more! When the GC is young, you don't expect to see too many ...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They’re densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They’re old, dating back almost to ...

Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have discovered a millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01 as part of the VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment ...

Some of the oldest objects in the universe may still have a long way to go, according to a new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These new results indicate that globular clusters might be ...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They're old, dating back almost to ...