Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  HD115861  ·  HD115989  ·  HD116001  ·  HD116035  ·  HD116036  ·  HD116037  ·  HD116067  ·  HD116147  ·  HD116197  ·  HD116225  ·  HD116295  ·  HD116337  ·  HD116352  ·  HD116353  ·  HD116354  ·  HD116414  ·  HD116487  ·  HD116524  ·  HD116586  ·  HD116601  ·  HD116649  ·  HD116663  ·  HD116745  ·  HD116789  ·  HD116824  ·  HD116860  ·  HD116861  ·  HD116979  ·  HD116980  ·  HD116993  ·  And 16 more.
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NGC5139 - Omega Centauri, Georg N. Nyman
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NGC5139 - Omega Centauri

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NGC5139 - Omega Centauri

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The largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milkyway, observably with the naked eye, its size about the full moon and known already 150bC by Ptolemy - that is NGC5139, Omega Centauri, located in the constellation Centaurus. Its distance to Earth is estimated to 17000LJ, its diameter about 150LJ and it contains about 10Mio stars with a total mass of about 4 Mio solar masses.

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NGC5139 - Omega Centauri, Georg N. Nyman