Talk:Stellar density

Core and globular clusters?

This article fails to define its terms! Quantify what "central core" means. Define what the "interior of a globular cluster" is, and why we should care what their population density is. That is, what volume fraction of the galaxy is comprised of globular clusters? I suspect the answer is "globular clusters are a negligible fraction of the galaxy's volume". If that is true, then at best there should be a separate section about them since their density is irrelevant to that of their galaxy. It's likely, imho, that the values of the "average" stellar density of the milky way would be based on a model (rather than observation). If it is, then I'd expect the model to provide answers to questions like: What's the stellar density at X thousand light-years radially from the center? So, what is the (predicted) stellar density at, say 44,000 light-years from SagA*? I'm not sure whether this information is available from secondary sources, but I hope so.98.17.180.146 (talk) 18:35, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

The point of the statement was to identify the galaxy locations with the highest stellar density. For that, it's completely irrelevant what portion of the galaxy consists of globulars. At any rate I clarified the statement. Praemonitus (talk) 03:03, 27 November 2024 (UTC)