Tiny Distant Globular Cluster Discovered

It’s not often that we find new star clusters within our own Galaxy.  Technology has been good enough to see the stars in the Milky Way for decades, and the grunt work in identifying and cataloguing local clusters is more or less finished, but occasionally we get lucky. A tiny and extremely distant globular star cluster has been found in the outskirts of the far side of our home galaxy.  Currently named Kim 2, it pales in comparison to the other 150 Milky Way globular clusters, containing 10-20 times fewer stars and having less than half the stellar density. The...