Omega Centauri

GLOBULAR CLUSTER · the giant ball of stars

STARS about 10 millionDISTANCE about 17,000 light years

The largest globular cluster of the Milky Way, a glittering sphere of roughly ten million ancient stars. In its crowded core, stars sit thousands of times closer together than in our neighborhood; night there would blaze with brilliant points. Omega Centauri may even be the surviving core of a small galaxy our Milky Way swallowed long ago.

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