Astronomers detect multiple extended tidal tails in an old globular cluster - Peer2Peer

Astronomers detect multiple extended tidal tails in an old globular cluster

Oct 06, 2024

By analyzing the data from various astronomical surveys, astronomers have investigated an old globular cluster known as NGC 288. As a result, they detected multiple extended tidal tails associated with this cluster. The finding was reported in a paper published September 25 on the pre-print server arXiv.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-astronomers-multiple-tidal-tails-globular.html

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