Not many people have heard of the globular star cluster Terzan 5. It's a big ball of stars resembling spilled sugar like so many other globular clusters. A very few globulars are bright enough to see with the naked eye; Terzan 5 is faint because it lies far away in the direction of the center of Milky Way galaxy inside its central bulge. Here, that formed at the galaxy's birth are packed together in great numbers. They are the "old ones" of the Milky Way. Today, a team of astronomers revealed th...
Not many people have heard of the globular star cluster Terzan 5. It's a big ball of stars resembling spilled sugar like so many other globular clusters. A very few globulars are bright enough to see with the naked eye; Terzan 5 is faint because it lies far away in the direction of the center of Milky Way galaxy inside its central bulge. Here, that formed at the galaxy's birth are packed together in great numbers. They are the "old ones" of the Milky Way. Today, a team of astronomers revealed th...
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