The night sky in June 2025 promises a spectacular array of celestial events that will captivate amateur astronomers and sky ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

But is it? You’ll find out in this August globular cluster showdown. First, let’s look at the criteria I used to make my picks. I began by compiling a list of all the Messier (M) and New ...

One such object is Messier Object 3 (aka. M3 or NGC 5272) globular cluster that is located in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. Since it was first observed, this globular star cluster ...

The newfound star, designated J0731+3717, turned out to be ejected from the globular cluster Messier 15 by an intermediate-mass black hole. The finding was presented in a paper published June 3 on ...

Globular Cluster Messier 5 (M5) will be “well-placed” for observation on May 11, meaning it’s reached its highest point in the night sky. Globular clusters are densely packed groups of ...

Thefirst globular cluster hunter Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Noted French astronomer Charles Messier was the first topay close ...

Showing an tremendous cluster of stars called a globular cluster, this view is located in the galaxy Messier 55. A globular cluster is a group of stars which is tens of thousands or even millions ...

Now they are revisiting the star cluster Messier 72 (M72). M72 is a collection of stars, formally known as a globular cluster, located in the constellation Aquarius roughly 50,000 light-years from ...

Messier was born in 1730 and developed a ... The series includes globular star clusters like M14, nebulae such as the Eagle Nebula (M16) and Crab Nebula (M1), and even the Andromeda galaxy ...