See it with your eyes alone in a dark place. In binoculars, it will appear as a faint, fuzzy patch. In a telescope, you will see the individual stars. Like many star clusters of this type, M5 is about ...
The Collinder 135 star cluster: An optical image of the Collinder 135 star cluster from the second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS-II). This cluster is one of the earliest formed in the Collinder 135 family ...
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation history of young star clusters, some of which we can see with the naked eye at night. The team, led by ...
The winter sky is dominated by sparkling bright stars dotting the Milky Way. Among the myriad star clusters, many that stand out in the eyepiece steal visual observers' hearts. The popular Messier ...