An international team of astronomers led by Soren Larsen (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) has accidentally discovered a globular cluster that contains extremely few metals, those ...

In a surprising discovery, astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories – W. M. Keck Observatory and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) – have found a globular star cluster in the Andromeda Galaxy ...

Metal clusters, comprising anywhere from a few to several dozen metallic atoms, occupy the transitional regime between discrete molecules and bulk solids. Their finite size endows them with discrete ...

Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered the globular cluster NGC 6496 in 1826, which resides in the constellation of Scorpius. This cluster is notable for its high metallicity stars and variety of ...

This study is led by Dr. Zhixun Luo (State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Transition metal particles are ...