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Astronomers Discover Terzan 5's True Nature


Observations of a distant cluster of stars in our galaxy have resulted in a new class of objects that turn out to be galactic building blocks. Researchers used Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study the stars that make up Terzan 5, long though to be a globular cluster. What they found puts that cluster into a very rare class of objects called

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