The researchers focused on Palomar 5, a globular cluster about 11.5 billion years old located in the Milky Way's halo, about 65,000 light-years from Earth in the Serpens constellation.

The researchers started their work, however, by looking at an unusual globular cluster called Palomar 5. It has both extended tails of lost stars, and its total mass is relatively small, ...

Serpens the Serpent is unique among the constellations because it's separated into two parts with Ophiuchus the ...

This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6 ...

A globular cluster is sometimes known more simply as a globular; the word is derived from the Latin globulus (a small sphere). Globular clusters are fairly common; there are about 150 currently ...

Using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemical study of a globular ...

While globular clusters can span hundreds of light-years, they are still dwarfed by their home galaxies, ... In contrast, some are only half that age (e.g., Palomar 1).

“This globular cluster and a few similar ones, such as Palomar 5 or Palomar 14, are ‘ghosts’ because they appear to be in the last stages of their existence, and we say ‘from the past ...

This is Palomar 2, one of 15 globular star clusters originally discovered by Hubble—not the ... Palomar 2 and the other 14 hidden clusters discovered by Hubble and his colleagues must either ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It's a ...

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The researchers focused on Palomar 5, a globular cluster about 11.5 billion years old located in the Milky Way's halo, about 65,000 light-years from Earth in the Serpens constellation.