Pazmino’s Cluster, or Stock 23, is a small open cluster in Camelopardalis that shines as a hidden gem for binoculars and ...

Three of the most popular targets for astronomers of all skill levels are the Seven Sisters (the Pleiades), the Hyades and ...

The European Union was one step away from opening its first negotiating cluster with Ukraine despite Hungary's blockade – but ...

The loose open cluster NGC 7243 makes it worth learning the location of Lacerta the Lizard, now visible in the evening sky.

The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from Chile have inspected a young open cluster known as NGC 6383. Results of the new study, presented in a paper published March 1 on the pre ...

Open clusters, loose assemblies of stars born from the same giant molecular cloud (GMC), are typically considered to form in isolation. However, the newly discovered OC groups consist of multiple ...

The open star cluster Bochum 14 can be seen from Rubin's perspective. Open star clusters include thousands of stars formed from the same giant molecular cloud.

Because open clusters like Orion eventually become gravitationally unbound, they disperse over the course of billions of years, and as a result, the sun’s birth neighbors are long gone.

How is a globular cluster like M3 different from other star clusters we can see, like the Pleiades? NASA explains it this way: “Unlike open clusters like the Pleiades, which sit within the Milky ...