How To Steal A Million Stars?

[Sonia]

Based on observations with European Southern Observatory's Very Large
Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports that the stellar cluster
Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million
low-mass stars.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0602/11stars/ (http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0602/11stars/)

From Space flight now

[ving]

globular clusters are so interesting :)
thanks for the article sonia

[anna]

Just getting off the track a little Sonia, I am actually
an adoptive mother of M12, it was given to me as a
birthday present.

[ving]

how on earth did you manage that anna?

[anna]

After the bushfires in Canberra a couple of years ago, Mt. Stromlo was
raising funds to help with their re-building. One way was to adopt out
(for a fee of course) stars, galaxies and globular clusters. I had a birthday
coming up, so John asked me what I would like to adopt, and then he
organized an Adoption Certificate and it came in the mail as a birthday
present from our grandchildren.

[ving]

cute :)

[mickoking]

M12's loss is our gain :cool:

[janoskiss]

Sonia, I take it you've seen the movie "How to steal a million"... have u? has anyone else? I have and thought it was delightful....

[syzygy]

Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole? If that's the one then yes, quite some time ago now. Yes it was delightful.