Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion years old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. These discoveries allow astronomers to understand more about the life and evolution of cannibal galaxies.  

Yesterday I posted Chandra’s M 87, the giant elliptical galaxy.  I was sure I was looking at a Globular cluster, turned out I was wrong, however the area is indeed rich in Globular clusters.  Above is a new Hubble release showing some of the Globular clusters in the Virgo region. Globular...  

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion years old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. ...  

It is a globular cluster, one of a hundred or so clusters that surround our galaxy. The stars of this cluster condensed from the primordial gas formed by ...  

There are several categories of deep sky objects: galaxies, nebulas, open star clusters and globular clusters. Galaxies are huge conglomerations consisting ...  

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion years old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. One of the results of these discoveries led astronomers to understand more about the life and evolution of cannibal galaxies.  

Within Aquila, you can also check out NGC 6709, an open star cluster, and NGC 6760, a globular cluster. In Lyra, there is of course the ever-popular Ring ...  

Not far from the great Hercules Cluster is another wonderful globular cluster, M92, not quite as bright as M13 but still very, very nice. ...  

Just below the top-right star in this crooked square of stars lies the Hercules Cluster, or M13, a globular cluster that looks like a fuzzy, large star to ...  

Submitted by News Staff on 5 August 2008 - 12:30am. Astronomy Globular star clusters, dense bunches of hundreds of thousands of stars, contain some of the oldest surviving stars in the Universe.  

L. Bedin / STScI / NASA / ESA Click for video: Two background galaxies are visible amid a glittering array of stars in this detail from a Hubble image showing the globular star cluster NGC 6791. Click on the image to watch a video that zooms in on the cluster. The time is out of joint...  

Hercules is famous for the great globular cluster M13. This premier cluster is easy to spot with binoculars. It's located one third of the way down from the ...  

Take a close look; just about every single point of light you see there is a globular cluster! The beam coming from the center is a blast of particles and ...  

Other times our house is like one of the oddities in our son's book about space: a globular cluster. That's a star group where the bodies are so packed they ...  

Other times our house is like one of the oddities in our son’s book about space: a globular cluster. That’sa star group where the bodies are so packed they ...