The Cosmic Perspective Fundamentals (2nd Edition)
The Cosmic Perspective Fundamentals (2nd Edition)
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Author: Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan O. Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 1QQ

Choose the best answer to each of the following. Explain your reasoning.

Where are most to the Milky Way’s globular clusters found? (a) in the disk (b) in the bulge (e) in the halo

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The location where globular clusterin the Milky Way can be found.

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The option (c) is the correct answer.

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Milky Way is the galaxy containing our solar system. It's faded and a hazy band of thick clouds with many stars embedded in it. It is a spiral galaxy. It contains few hundred of globular clusters.

Globular cluster is a group of closely located stars. Globular clusters are located near galactic core.The stars in the globular cluster are tightly bounded by gravity because of which their appearance is spherical.Globular clusters are found in the halo near the galactic center, Thus, option (c) is correct.

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