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Originally Posted by astroron
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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That makes sense. Thanks Ron! Amazing to think we are seeing clusters in another galaxy. Astronomy is awesome
