The Butterfly Cluster (M6) is visible without a telescope. Globular cluster M107 is best viewed with a small telescope. Spiral galaxy NGC 6207 requires a large telescope for observation. These ...

This week’s small-telescope target is the Black Swallowtail Butterfly Cluster in northern Ophiuchus. This open cluster also goes by the designation IC 4665. It’s OK if you’ve never observed (or even ...

"Astro" Bob King is a freelance writer for the News Tribune. Read more of his work at astrobob.areavoices.com. M7 (left) and M6 along with a portion of the southern Milky Way poke out from between ...

Sunday: At 8:30 p.m., the thin crescent moon is in the west-southwest, but is not especially bright. Without much light from the moon it is a good opportunity to view an open cluster of stars near the ...

Activation of [Fe₃(CO)₁₂] with trimethylamine N-oxide in the presence of acetonitrile affords the labile species [Fe₃(CO)₁₁ (MeCN)] The latter reacts with bis[bis(trimethylsilyl)]methyl]tin at low ...

The Collinder 135 star cluster: An optical image of the Collinder 135 star cluster from the second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS-II). This cluster is one of the earliest formed in the Collinder 135 family ...

Tokyo - Miniaturization is the watchword of progress. Nanoscience - building structures on the scale of a few atoms - has long been at the forefront of chemistry for some time now. Recently, ...

Scientists have produced a 3-D cluster molecule based on palladium. First, they created a 'butterfly-shaped' Pd4 framework, using an organosilicon compounds bearing the aromatic substitutents as both ...