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Re:Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics by arriu on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:32PM (#17559808)
Can you tell us about your favourite globular clusters? I know some of them have very interesting properties like having similar stellar ages but are there any really peculiar ones you can tell us about? Also, I'd love to see some of the images your referring to.

Thanks!

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Re:Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics by eisstrom on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:29PM (#17560886)
I like NGC 3201 because we found a stellar mass black hole in it (https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1802/). There should be many more of them in all clusters, but they are hard to find. Theorists can use this to check their N-body simulations of globular clusters.

Some clusters (omega Cen, 47 Tuc) are really weird and different from all others. We think that they might be the remnant cores of dwarf galaxies.

What images do you mean?

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