{"id":24539,"date":"2021-10-19T04:56:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T04:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24539"},"modified":"2021-10-19T04:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T04:56:34","slug":"palomar-6-globular-star-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24539","title":{"rendered":"Palomar 6: Globular Star Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2110\/Palomar6_Hubble_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Where did this big ball of stars come from? Palomar 6 is one of about 200 globular clusters of stars that survive in our Milky Way Galaxy. These spherical star-balls are older than our Sun as well as older than most stars that orbit in our galaxy&#8217;s disk. Palomar 6 itself is estimated to be about 12.5 billion years old, so old that it is close to &#8212; and so constrains &#8212; the age of the entire universe. Containing about 500,000 stars, Palomar 6 lies about 25,000 light years away, but not very far from our galaxy&#8217;s center. At that distance, this sharp image from the Hubble Space Telescope spans about 15 light-years. After much study including images from Hubble, a leading origin hypothesis is that Palomar 6 was created &#8212; and survives today &#8212; in the central bulge of stars that surround the Milky Way&#8217;s center, not in the distant galactic halo where most other globular clusters are now found. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap211019.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did this big ball of stars come from? Palomar 6 is one of about 200 globular clusters of stars that survive in our Milky Way Galaxy. These spherical star-balls <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24539\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24540,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions\/24540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}