Release No. 04-26: Some Globular Clusters May Be Leftovers From Snacking Galaxies For Release: August 12, 2004
This artist's conception shows a typical globular cluster as viewed from a hypothetical nearby planet. Research has shown that some globular clusters may be the stripped cores of former dwarf galaxies. Credit: David A. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) JPEG (135K) High Resolution JPEG (5.0M)