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Omega Centauri

OMEGA-CEN · globular cluster · Common

Omega Centauri

Halley saw it was a cluster, in 1677.

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The real thing

Photograph
Omega Centauri, photographed by Hubble Space Telescope
NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgement: A. Cool (San Francisco State Univ.) and J. Anderson (STScI) · CC BY 4.0

Record

NGC 5139
Object
globular cluster
Rarity
Common
RA
13:26:48.12
Dec
-47:28:45.84
DISTANCE
~17,000 ly
STARS
~10 million
MAGNITUDE
3.9
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0 / 300
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