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- noun Plural form of
globular .
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Often called simply globulars, they hold hundreds of thousands of stars, sometimes a million or more, in a near-spherical form, with the stars packed closer together as we approach the core.
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Typically, the stars within globulars are ancient, born in the early Universe when elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were scarce.
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Our Milky Way "owns" 160 known globulars, of which the two brightest are naked-eye objects in the southern hemisphere.
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The prominent globular in the right side of our image from VISTA is UKS 1, while one of the new globulars, VVV CL001, is the small knot above and right of the bright star towards the left.
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A similar process occurs with globulars which are either absorbing or lost them into interstellar space.
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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We see globulars in many nearby dwarf galaxies I.e The Fornax Dwarf Galaxy, so therefore it not logical that the Milky Way has taken their globular and made them apart of our own galaxy?
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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How do we know the globulars have periods of star formation?
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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Star formation is globulars likely began during the formation of the galaxies, but last perhaps a few hundreds of million of years.
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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Most globulars these evolutionary differences are fairly minor, and suggest that star formation was not all at once but over a short period – possibly with intermittent burst of star formation depending on the gas collapse of the nebulosity that forms the stars in the globular.
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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There are actually many reasons why globulars can be accelerated to escape – mostly likely encounters with other galaxies, companions or multiple objects, which significantly influence the galactic orbit sufficiently so the globular can move into intergalactic space.
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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