Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

As the ISS flew over New Delhi, astrophotographers and amateurs alike turned their cameras to the skies, possibly mirroring ...

Data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope has revealed spider pulsars, which are a group of dead stars, in globular cluster Omega ...

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured the star cluster Liller 1, a 30,000 light-year distant system that formed stars over 11 ...

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What do we call Omega Centauri, then? A huge globular cluster or a partially digested dwarf galaxy?

The space industry has a new entrant: OmegA, an intermediate- to heavy-class rocket built by Orbital ATK that could launch from KSC in 2021.

“Omega C,” short for “Omega Centauri,” takes inspiration from the alpha and omega on church candles and the Alpha Centauri star system.

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes.