Discovered: Remnant of ancient globular cluster that's 'the last of its kind'
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way's gravity 2 billion years ago, when Earth's most-complex lifeforms were single-celled organisms. This surprising finding, published in Nature, upends conventional wisdom about how these celestial objects form.