Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Globular cluster
Globular cluster[edit]
- This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.
The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 10, 2022 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:30, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galaxy core as a satellite. They are tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shape, and relatively high stellar density towards their core. There are about 150 currently known globular clusters in the Milky Way, with perhaps 10–20 more undiscovered. Large galaxies can have more: Andromeda, for instance, may have as many as 500. Some giant elliptical galaxies, such as M87, may have as many as 10,000 globular clusters. These globular clusters orbit the galaxy out to large radii, 40 kiloparsecs or more. Every galaxy of sufficient mass in the Local Group has an associated group of globular clusters, and almost every large galaxy possesses a system of globular clusters. The Sagittarius Dwarf and Canis Major Dwarf galaxies appear to be in the process of donating their associated globular clusters to the Milky Way, such as Palomar 12. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Apollo 16 will be TFA April 16. The last article from WP:WikiProject Astronomy is Ursa Minor on January 10
- Main editors: RJHall nominated for FAC.
- Promoted: August 20, 2006, FAR: December 11, 2021
- Reasons for nomination: It's been a couple of months since there's been an article about objects in outer space. This article was recently declared keep at FAR, so it is presumably ready for TFA. This would be a TFA re-run, with its last run in 2006. The blurb is from its original 2016 run, although I shortened it to conform to character limits.
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 15:36, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:50, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Also a suggestion for nominator @Z1720:, perhaps nominate the TFA to July 1, to mark the 23rd anniversary for the image used in the blurb. CaptainGalaxy 15:54, 14 May 2022 (UTC)