The night skies of this autumn month would enable avid sky-watchers to immerse themselves into the enigmas and splendors surrounding the planets, stars, constellations and countless cosmic entities be ...

Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys, but only a few planets have so far been discovered. The Kepler spacecraft revealed an abundance of small planets around small cool stars ...

An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud, and are still loosely gravitationally bound to each other. In contrast, globular clusters ...