Tidal tails detected around a distant globular cluster

Monday, May 22, 2017 - 08:32 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—Astronomers have found tidal tails around a distant globular cluster known as NGC 7492. The newly discovered features could provide important information about the nature of globular clusters. The findings were presented in a paper published May. 11 on the arXiv preprint repository.

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