[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: ] Gordon Mandell

[chimera]

Amazingly beautiful. 15,000 LY is actually pretty close for a globbie. Back in the day when I had ideas of being an astrophysicist, I remember looking at one that was something like 110,000 LY off, but still gravitationally bound to the MW. I wonder what the night sky would look like on a planet somewhere near the middle of one of these babies? Pretty glorious, I'd think.

[Jonty30]

Cool pic.

[left that other site]

Lovely! Thanks, Civ!

[Conan the Librarian]

I saw this back in April from our dark sky site. It was dark enough that O Cent was naked eye even on the horizon. O Cent was bright enough that it had a Red color to it.

Through the scope, it’s like a wall of stars even at lower powers.

As for the 750,000 years between supernovas, why so?
Full galaxies have them every 400 years or so. O Cent isn’t a full galaxy and I can see the chances being less. I was just curious about the reasoning.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Isn’t that the end graphic for Buck Rogers ?