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NGC5139 Omega Centauri globular cluster
Omega Centauri (NGC 5139). A globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus. It is the largest-known globular cluster in the Milky Way, located at a distance of 17,090 light-years from the Earth.
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Radio Observations Find Nothing at Omega Centauri's Heart #Science #Space #Astrophysics #OmegaCentauri #RadioObservations
🧠🔭 What if Omega Centauri is the heart of a galaxy once devoured by the Milky Way?
A study led by Borja Anguiano @cefca-oaj.bsky.social finds 463 halo stars with chemical fingerprints matching ω Cen
📄 Published 🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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A dense, spherical cluster of stars fills the center of the image, glowing with a golden hue. Countless individual stars are packed tightly together, especially toward the core, creating a bright, concentrated center that gradually fades outward. Some red giant stars with warmer colors stand out among the cooler, bluish ones. The black background of space is scattered with additional faint stars. The image captures the vast population and structure of Omega Centauri in sharp detail.
Ten million stars. One massive cluster. ✨
Omega Centauri is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way, 15,000 light-years away. Its stars vary in age and chemistry — a clue that it may be the core of a swallowed dwarf galaxy.
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🛠️ Processing: Leo Shatz
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A breathtaking telescopic view of Omega Centauri (NGC 5139), the largest and brightest globular cluster in our Milky Way galaxy. This densely packed cluster, located 15,000 light-years away, contains approximately 10 million stars, showcasing a diverse range of ages and compositions, possibly a remnant of a smaller galaxy merging with our own. The image highlights the yellowish hue of its red giant stars.
Astronomy Picture from 16/03/2023
Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230316.html
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Sphere of thousands of densely packed multicolored stars, less dense toward edges.
Did you know? #OmegaCentauri, the largest known globular #starcluster of the #MilkyWay, contains about 10 million stars. From the Southern Hemisphere, it appears high in the sky. Observers in the Northern Hemisphere can see it late on May and June evenings. 🌌🔭
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A stunning telephoto image of the night sky over Crete, Greece. The photo shows a church silhouetted against a star-filled sky, featuring prominent celestial objects like Omega Centauri (NGC 5139), Centaurus A (NGC 5128), and NGC 4945. The waxing gibbous moon illuminates the landscape.
Astronomy Picture from 29/06/2016
From Alpha to Omega in Crete
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160629.html
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Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of Omega Centauri, a globular cluster in the Milky Way. Thousands of stars, including red giants, are densely packed together. Two binary star systems resulting from stellar collisions are highlighted. The image reveals the aftermath of stellar collisions in a region of extremely high stellar density.
Astronomy Picture from 14/09/2009
The Center of Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090914.html
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Image of Omega Centauri (NGC 5139), the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way galaxy, containing about 10 million stars. This massive cluster, located approximately 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, is visible without a telescope and provides valuable insights into the history of our galaxy and the universe's age. Its diameter spans about 150 light-years.
Astronomy Picture from 16/04/2002
Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020416.html
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Bright cluster of thousands of stars, dense in the center and much more sparse in the outer region.
Scott Smith in Palmetto, Florida, captured the globular star cluster #OmegaCentauri in March. Scott wrote: "It is the largest known #globularcluster in the #MilkyWay. Thank you, Scott! 🌌🔭
See more of March’s best deep sky photos, plus watch a video:
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A night sky photo in a populated area. The sky is full of stars from top to near the bottom. The bottom features a tall columnar tree jutting into the center of the image, a partially lit building face below it, and a brightly lit palm tree top to it's right. The Southern Cross is prominent to the left of the tall pointy tree, with the cross shape being slightly tilted to the left. Another feature which is more dimly visible to the right of the tall tree and above the palm to the right, it the Carina Nebula, in the constellation Carina. These features in the night sky are very far South, and are not visible in much of the North American Continent.
A close up of a portion of the night sky with many stars. Centered in the image is a larger fuzzy, or blurry bright object. That is known as Omega Centauri, in the constellation Centaurs. It is the largest Globular Cluster in the night sky at about 170 Light years across. It is in orbit around our Milky Way Galaxy, and not inside our galaxies disk, but above it. It is over 17,000 light years away from Earth, and composed of over 10 million individual stars.
"When you see The Southern Cross for the first time..."
My 2nd time now! Bonus of a little fuzzy crop image of #OmegaCentauri!
24mm f2.8 20sec iso400 #astrophotography #📷 #🔭 #southerncross #crux #stars #lambdacentarusnebula #carinanebula #centarus #carina
A stunning telescopic image of Omega Centauri (NGC 5139), a globular star cluster located 15,000 light-years away. This massive cluster, spanning 150 light-years, contains approximately 10 million stars, many older than our Sun. Its diverse stellar populations and potential origins as a remnant galaxy core make it a fascinating object of study.
Astronomy Picture from 31/03/2010
Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100331.html
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A large, round, symmetrical ball of thousands of stars, so dense in the middle it appears solid white.
The famous #OmegaCentauri star cluster is the largest and finest globular star cluster visible to the eye alone. In the spring, the bright star Spica can lead you to the Omega Centauri globular cluster. 🔭 See how Spica can lead you to Omega Centauri at: buff.ly/ZgXYmDM
📸 Scott Smith.
Mysterious star movement in Omega Centauri may finally be explained: Could the decades-long mystery of unusual star movements in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be solved?
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New constraints on the central mass contents of Omega Centauri from combined stellar kinematics and pulsar timing: arxiv.org/abs/2408.00939 -> IAC researchers find that the stars in #OmegaCentauri move under the action of a cluster of black holes: www.iac.es/en/outreach/...
Das große Bild zeigt die Zentralregion von Omega Centauri. Das weiße Quadrat markiert die Region, in der sich die schnellen Sterne befinden. Das rechte Bild zeigt einen vergrößerten Ausschnitt dieser Region. Die sieben schnellen Sterne sind mit grünen Kreisen markiert, die Pfeile zeigen ihre Bewegungsrichtung. Die Position des Schwarzen Loches ist mit einem schwarzen Kreis mit weißer Kreislinie markiert. (Bild: M. Häberle)
Erd-nächstes massives Schwarzes Loch im Sternhaufen Omega Centauri entdeckt
Neu entdecktes schwarze Loch ist Kern einer Galaxie, die von Milchstraße verschluckt wurde. Pressemitteilung Universität Wien. Bild:M.Häberle #schwarzesloch #schwarzeloecher #OmegaCentauri
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"Stars going over the speed limit reveal the presence of an invisible black hole in #OmegaCentauri", say Astrophysicists of #univie Anja Feldmeier-Krause and Glenn van de Ven. ✨
More about their research on the massive star cluster in our Milky Way: ⤵ 🔭
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Se trata de una agujero negro de masa intermedia que está más cerca de la Tierra que el agujero negro supermasivo en el centro de nuestra galaxia. #omegacentauri #agujeronegro #estrellas #imbh #hubble mysteryplanet.com.ar/site/hubble-...
