Open Cluster News Today

NASA is addressing an issue with a Hubble Space Telescope gyroscope that prompted the observatory to enter safe mode on November 23. Science operations have been suspended as a result, but the space agency doesn’t seem too worried.

One of the jewels of the night sky, the Pleiades is an open cluster of seven bright blue stars that dominate the winter night sky. This week, it reaches its highest position in the night sky around midnight—something astronomers call its annual "culmination."

Summer is coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the party’s over.This Saturday, Sept. 23, Oregon State Parks will host OMSI’s free public star parties at L.L.

These black holes could have also been ejected from the star cluster they live within.

The study suggests that black holes could be present in Hyades Star Cluster, which is the closest open cluster to our solar system. Read to learn more.

The new moon on Aug. 15 will offer dark skies perfect for skywatchers to hunt out stunning Messier objects like the globular cluster M2, the Butterfly Cluster and the Wild Duck Cluster.

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Hubble spots a glittering display of an open star cluster hailing 160,000 light-years away from our planet.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has captured a beautiful photo of the NGC 1755 star cluster, found in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The peak of the annual Lyrid meteor shower has just passed. A group of stargazers was able to see a bright fireball meteor with me last Friday night while learning about space in Frankfort. Most meteors are a tiny, little more than the size of a grain of sand. They glow so brightly and appear as shooting stars because they hit the atmosphere of the Earth moving at tremendous speeds — about 30,000 mph on average. That energy of motion, known as kinetic energy, is transformed into heat and l...