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Meets Bigfoot Sampson

Stargaz­ing can be a lonely pre­oc­cu­pa­tion. Some­times it’s so hard to con­vince your loved ones to travel to the mid­dle of nowhere in the dark to see a bunch of sparkly things, as beau­ti­ful as they may be. Most stargaz­ers have spent an evening or two alone in the mid­dle of some farmer’s field, lost in the vast­ness of space and, frankly, scared out of their minds. The sounds of the night are the scari­est part — the rus­tle of a corn stalk can be the sure sign that Big­foot is approach­ing stealth­ily through the darkness.

Observing the Galactic Suburbs

Our Milky Way galaxy is often described as a flat­tened disk of hun­dreds of bil­lions stars. That descrip­tion leaves out some of our galaxy’s most inter­est­ing parts. Hov­er­ing above and below the main disk are the sub­urbs of our galac­tic city — 150 or so glob­u­lar clus­ters of stars. Along with some stray stars and occa­sional gas mol­e­cules, glob­u­lar clus­ters are the main con­stituents of what is more prop­erly called the “galac­tic halo.”

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