More on Globular Clusters

The Milky Way, our galaxy, is one of hun­dreds of bil­lions (or tril­lions — who knows?) of tiny islands of stars sprin­kled through­out the vast cos­mic ocean of space. Seen from the top, galax­ies are often shaped like flat spi­rals — children’s pin­wheels of uncount­able stars. Seen from the side, galax­ies look much like lenses bulging at the cen­ter and taper­ing to points at the edges. Most of a galaxy’s stars are spread through­out the lens-like struc­ture, the galaxy proper.