April 1st information on discovery of a new globular cluster in the Milky Way was an "April Fools' Day" hoax.
Real information below:
Group of astronomers from Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in collaboration with Douglas Heggie from Edinburgh University has made a simulation of M22 globular cluster. Based on this simulation a synthetic image of this cluster has been created. Parameters of this image are close to those in the frames from a 1-mater class telescope.
The model contains more than 750 thousand stars with a total mass about 300 thousand solar mass. Photometry done on the simulated image allowed detection of only about 10 percent of the stars.
Mirek Giersz, Douglas Heggie, Arkadiusz Hypki, Arek Olech, Wojtek Pych
