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Originally Posted by EpickCrom
Thank you Ron. Yeah I've noticed this, I wonder why globular clusters in LMC and SMC are called open clusters? Thanks for info regarding Aladdin and Simbad! Clear skies to you 🙂
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I think it's because of the ages of the stars,but also usually globular
clusters are on the outside of galaxies.
The clusters look like globular clusters but are maybe just
tight clusters and being so far away look globular clusters,
The globular clusters of our galaxy are only in the tens of thousands
light years away, while the clusters in the Lmc/Smc are in the thousands
of thousands of light years away so look condensed like globular clusters.
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