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 ...

Peering through the thick dust clouds of the galactic bulge an international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar cluster known as Terzan 5. The new results ...

Light from the globular cluster Terzan 12 is distorted by gas and dust, casting the image in a reddish hue. Reading time 2 minutes Behold the celestial bounty of space. In an image recently taken by ...

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