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Recent Examples on the Web But spring and fall are prime times for globular clusters (dense collections of ancient stars), especially on nights when bright moonlight might drown out the planets. — Erin E. Williams, Twin Cities, "A window to the universe is open in Oregon," 24 Sep. 2019 The discovery has generated enough interest to earn the team precious time on the Hubble Space Telescope to study Dragonfly 44’s globular clusters. — Quanta Magazine, "Strange Dark Galaxy Puzzles Astrophysicists," 27 Sep. 2016 But recent research by Gerosa and one of his colleagues found that the recoil from such collisions would likely eject most pairs from the globular cluster, preventing them from finding future companions to merge with. — Charlie Wood, Scientific American, "Black Hole Factories May Hide at Cores of Giant Galaxies," 4 Dec. 2019 Thinking global The new work focuses on what are called globular clusters, which are large groups of stars held together by gravity. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Building Andromeda: Galaxy ended up with stars orbiting at right angles," 6 Oct. 2019 But spring and fall are prime times for globular clusters (dense collections of ancient stars), especially on nights when bright moonlight might drown out the planets. — Erin E. Williams, Twin Cities, "A window to the universe is open in Oregon," 24 Sep. 2019 Inside a globular cluster, a 50-solar-mass black hole could merge with a 30-solar-mass one, for instance, and then the resulting giant could merge again. — Quanta Magazine, "Possible Detection of a Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’," 28 Aug. 2019 Researchers literally followed the crumb trail to find globular clusters of stars that once belonged to other galaxies within Andromeda. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "This violent galaxy next door is set for a collision with the Milky Way," 2 Oct. 2019 More than 140 globular clusters form a giant halo around our Milky Way Galaxy. — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, "Mike Lynch: Celestial congestion of Hercules Cluster is a treasure," 8 Sep. 2019

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