A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity.
Hubble observations give ‘missing’ globular cluster time to shine
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When Robert Smith met his future girlfriend in 2010, he wanted to take things slowly. For Smith, no relationship had been easy in the years since he was diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus, or [...]
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Earlier this year, the latest U.S. Latino GDP Report revealed that the direct economic output of the country’s Latino population exceeded $4 trillion for the first time. Now, new findings from researchers at UCLA and [...]
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President Donald Trump intends to unveil an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan aimed at keeping the United States at the forefront of AI development. Toward that end, the president is expected to sign three new executive [...]
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The last year has highlighted a political divide between young men and women. Data from elections in several countries shows that women aged 18–29 are becoming significantly more liberal, while young men are leaning more [...]
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A new study from the University of Georgia found that even unenforced, or “toothless,” compulsory voting laws can increase voter turnout. The research is published in the journal Electoral Studies.This post was originally published on [...]
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When women political candidates deviate from expectations or the views of their party, they are judged far more harshly than men by voters, reveals a new study in Politics & Gender.This post was originally published [...]
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President Donald Trump has threatened to levy higher tariffs on more than two dozen countries and on various products in the past few months. China in particular has been a target of the administration’s trade [...]
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When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them citizenship, proponents of the Dawes Act argued it would give them greater independence to farm their own [...]
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Disproportionately high support for the Conservative Party among Anglicans is acting as a buffer against the increasingly partisan and volatile Tory support base, research shows.This post was originally published on this site
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War in Ukraine is transforming the country’s criminal landscape, causing economic and social damage, finds research led by Dr. Taras Fedirko for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).This post was originally published on [...]
