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10 millions of stars in Omega Centauri
............. to see the colors od the stars: best to be seen larger on black: clic here
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OMEGA CENTAURI is the largest known globular cluster of stars in our galaxy (the "Milky Way").
It's one of the few that can alredy be seen with the naked eye in the SOUTHERN SKY as a faint nebulous spot. Most of the 200 known clusters in our galaxy can only be seen by a telescope.
This enormous ball of stars located 15,000 light-years away from Earth spans 150 light years across and contains about 10 MILLION stars. It's age is 12 billion years.
The image has been taken with the use of a telescope with 0.35 m aperture and 3 m focal length and color filters (Blue, Green, Red) from a very dark site in NAMIBIA in southern Africa. The images in the different colors were added to give the color image. Total exposure time was about one hour.
#407 in Flickr EXPLORE May 30, 2007
10 millions of stars in Omega Centauri
............. to see the colors od the stars: best to be seen larger on black: clic here
..............
OMEGA CENTAURI is the largest known globular cluster of stars in our galaxy (the "Milky Way").
It's one of the few that can alredy be seen with the naked eye in the SOUTHERN SKY as a faint nebulous spot. Most of the 200 known clusters in our galaxy can only be seen by a telescope.
This enormous ball of stars located 15,000 light-years away from Earth spans 150 light years across and contains about 10 MILLION stars. It's age is 12 billion years.
The image has been taken with the use of a telescope with 0.35 m aperture and 3 m focal length and color filters (Blue, Green, Red) from a very dark site in NAMIBIA in southern Africa. The images in the different colors were added to give the color image. Total exposure time was about one hour.
#407 in Flickr EXPLORE May 30, 2007