Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...
A team led by Andrea Kunder from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) measured the velocity of a sample of 100 old RR Lyrae stars* thought to reside in the galactic bulge, the central ...
Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569.