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Astronomers see the Milky Way eating one of its own – SYFY WIRE
The globular cluster M92 is a gorgeous example of its kind. A roughly spherical ball of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by their mutual gravity, it…
The globular cluster M92 is a gorgeous example of its kind. A roughly spherical ball of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by their mutual gravity, it’s one of about 160 such that orbit the Milky Way.
Well, for now. It turns out our galaxy is eating it.
Astronomers have discovered a stream of stars ahead and behind the cluster as it orbits, stellar citizens stripped away by the gravity of the Milky Way. This is surprising, given the great age of M92 about 11 billion years old which m…
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