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GCl 38 is a globular cluster located in the constellation Hercules. It was discovered in 1958 by Sidney van den Bergh and Halton Arp during inspection of the photographic plates from the Palomar Sky Survey. This is a round, diffuse cluster located in the outer halo of the Milky Way galaxy. It is about 3–4 billion years younger than a typical galactic cluster.〔 The metallicity of the cluster is () = −1.50, indicating a lower abundance of elements with mass greater that helium compared to the Sun. The combined mass of the main sequence stars in the cluster is , and the combined mass of observed stars within the half-light radius is . (This is the inner radius of the cluster that emits half the total luminosity.) These mass estimates provide lower bounds for determining the total mass of the cluster. The median radial velocity of stars within the cluster is . Because of the cluster's location on the outer fringes of the Milky Way, it was used as a test case for modified newtonian dynamics (MOND). This is an alternative hypothesis to explain the galactic rotation problem.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GCl 38」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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