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That's a cool experiment! But no one seems concerned about the stray drops of water. Couldn't they be a hazard to electrical components, particularly as they could break up into droplets small enough to infiltrate just about anywhere? I would have thought capillary action could also draw the water d...

I think that the number 250 is wrong, or at least there is little support for it. You have quoted several sources, which seem to agree that the probable total number of globulars in the Milky Way is less than 200, even less than 180. The reason why the number of globulars in the Milky Way is uncert...

APOD is one of my most visited sites because of the information provided and (equally) because of the wonderful images like this one. I have read in several places (links below) that the number of globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy is around the 150 mark yet the text accompanying this image s...