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GLOBULAR CLUSTERS 

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Messier NGC      


Globular clusters are spherical concentrations of stars typically 100 light years across and containing thousands of stars. Globular clusters are very old, at least 10 billion years old and were presumably formed when the galaxy was still forming. They are scattered in a spherical halo surrounding our galaxy and take hundreds of millions of years to orbit it.