Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

Like NGC 602, NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old. (For comparison, the sun is a middle-aged star about 5 billion years old—about 1,000 times older.) ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Sarajedi A globular cluster is like a little miniature galaxy. It's a collection of stars, sometimes numbering in the thousands, that are gathered together in a ...

First of all, Dursun's team identified 868 most likely member stars of NGC 188 (within ... that the forming region of the cluster is outside the solar circle. According to the paper, NGC 188 ...

While they have been spotted in abundance in young star clusters such as the Trapezium Cluster in Orion (Fig. 1), their origin has puzzled scientists. Traditional theories have suggested that they ...