• A cluster of stars growing brighter and more dense towards a central point.
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    Deep within the Milky Way, the Terzan 5 cluster contains stars that are 12 billion years old. Other stars in the cluster, half that age, were likely stripped from another galaxy.

  • A cluster of stars growing brighter and more dense towards a central point.

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