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Subaru observations suggest an intrinsic gap in NGC 5466's tidal stream

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and elsewhere have used the Subaru Telescope to perform deep imaging observations of a distant globular cluster known as NGC 5466. The observational campaign yields important information about the structure of the cluster's tidal...

Subaru observations suggest an intrinsic gap in NGC 5466's tidal stream
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Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and elsewhere have used the Subaru Telescope to perform deep imaging observations of a distant globular cluster known as NGC 5466. The observational campaign yields important information about the structure of the cluster's tidal stream. The new findings were published February 4 on the arXiv preprint server.

Originally published at Phys.org

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