Most star clusters then break up as gravity is seldom strong enough to keep them together for long. The individual stars then go their own paths through the galaxy. Most stars, including our sun formed in just this way. The nebula may be over 5000 light-years away. August This beautiful globular star cluster is one of the closest known, being only 10,000 light- years from earth.
Globular clusters are huge balls of stars which usually contain hundreds of thousands of stars.
Globulars are composed of very old stars and lie at the very outskirts of our galaxy, forming a halo about it. August, September M-92 is a rich globular star cluster. Over 100 such clusters are known in our galaxy. They orbit the center of the galaxy forming a halo about it. It is about 90 light-years in diameter.