[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[Hot Tabasco]

The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun within a volume about 150 light-years in diameter.

And that's with a camera pointed in one direction only.

A number that man can not truly comprehend.

And we naively believe that we are the sole residents of the universe?

[NWFree]

That picture is out of date

[Conan the Librarian]

Two things:

One, Omega Centauri is a Galactic Core that has had its interstellar gas stripped off by interaction with the Milky Way. It is NOT a Globular Cluster.

Two, from Savannah, Ga we could just see it naked eye from a dark sky (it looked red due to the atmosphere), and, even if it wasn’t that dark, we could get a pretty good view of it for about 2 hours in the Spring.

[scrabblehack]

It’s the same constellation as the closest star (excepting the sun).