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Globular Clusters: Already Old Nine Billion Years Ago

Globular Clusters: Already Old Nine Billion Years Ago

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News · Pamela Gay

September 30, 202222m 15s

Show Notes

The quest to understand the formation mechanisms of globular clusters was limited by the Hubble Space Telescope's ability to peer back in time. Now, JWST's larger mirror has allowed astronomers to find gravitationally lensed galaxies that have globular clusters almost nine billion years old. Plus, two new super-mercury exoplanets, This Week in Space History, and an interview with Eric Palmer about the DART mission.