New M92 Stellar Stream Discovered

New M92 Stellar Stream Discovered

Space Daily

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Waimea HI (SPX) Oct 16, 2020

A team of astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope discovered a new stellar stream emanating from the M92 globular cluster. This new stream suggests that M92 is actively being disrupted by tidal forces caused by our Milky Way Galaxy. This discovery utilized high quality data obtained as part of the Canada-France Imaging Survey (CFIS) using MegaCam at CFHT and from the Pan-STARRS 1 (P

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