We also describe the basic principle of white dwarf cosmochronology and its application in defining the age of the Galactic disk, globular clusters, open clusters and Galactic halo.
This enormous super cluster has now grown so old, that it begins to stabilize and converge into one, super mega, behemoth galaxy that spans hundreds of millions of light-years.
Back in 1997, an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope showed that the light from a far-off galaxy was being bent by another unknown cluster in the image's foreground.
The one thing all these clusters have in common is that they're all being pulled towards one specific spot, 220 million light-years away, known as the Great Attractor.
Ancient clumps of stars that predate the Milky Way, globular clusters are gorgeous and mysterious, and they are veritable millisecond pulsar factories.