This ball of stars named Terzan 5 may be one of the Milky Way’s original building blocks
via space.com
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A huge, shining bauble of stars called Terzan 5 could be a clump of our galaxy’s central bulge that hasn’t been smoothed out into the mix, and has instead survived as a fossil relic leftover from the birth of the Milky Way galaxy. “Terzan 5 may provide direct evidence that can help explain how bulges […]