Friday 12 September 2014

This star cluster is not what it seems

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
This star cluster is not what it seems
Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 12, 2014 - The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters, which are balls of hundreds of thousands of old stars dating back to the formation of the galaxy. One of these, along with several others in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), was found in the late eighteenth century by the French comet hunter Charles Messier and given the designation Messier 54. For more ... more


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