Today, there are perhaps 200 left . Many globular clusters were destroyed over the eons by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center . Surviving relics are older than any Earth fossil , older than any other structures in our Galaxy , and limit the universe itself in raw age. There are few, if any, young globular clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy because conditions are not ripe for more to form. Things are different next door, however, in the neighboring LMC galaxy .
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