Containing an incredible half-million stars, this 8-billion-year-old cosmic bauble is one of the largest and brightest globular clusters ever discovered. Credits: ESA/Hubbleaxialintellectual t1_jcth8h9 wrote
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It's still rare, but the orders of magnitude higher density, and the fact that globular clusters get quite old, means that there's a lot of opportunities. Here's a recent paper about the topic, if you want to read more.
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