Globular clusters tell tale of star formation in nearby galaxy metropolis
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 11:07
in Astronomy & Space
Globular star clusters, dense bunches of hundreds of thousands of stars, contain some of the oldest surviving stars in the Universe. A new international study of globular clusters outside our Milky Way Galaxy has found evidence that these hardy pioneers are more likely to form in dense areas, where star birth occurs at a rapid rate, instead of uniformly from galaxy to galaxy.
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