Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made the first direct observation of star clusters colliding and merging at the hearts of dwarf galaxies. The discovery could help scientists settle ...

A trio of massive, young star clusters found embedded in a star cloud may shed light on the formation of super-star clusters and globular clusters. The discovery, made with images taken with the ...

Thousands of galaxies flood this near-infrared, high-resolution image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 Photo courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI A team of Canadian astronomers, including experts from the ...

The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, ...

Supermassive black holes appear to reside at the center of every galaxy and to have done so since galaxies formed early in the history of the Universe. Currently, however, we can’t entirely explain ...

Star clusters are collections of thousands to millions of stars bound together by gravity — and many can be observed in the night sky with binoculars or a small telescope. One notable example is ω ...

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