[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Joaquin Polleri & Ezequiel Etcheverry (Observatorio Panameño en San Pedro de Atacama)]

[Telepathic Intruder]

And here's my artist's impression of the night sky as seen from inside the very core:

[cripplecreek]

Big has a nice background image up today. Crater lake.

[Conan the Librarian]

Small problem with the article.

Omega Cent may not be a Globular Cluster. It seems that it is the core of a galaxy that has collided with the Milky Way and had most of everything stripped off of it.

The Wikipedia article explains better than I can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Centauri

It also has some good references to back it up.

That all being said, this is one object I look forward to seeing every spring. I live just far enough south that we can catch it clearing the trees on clear nights.