BY LETTER
Omega Centauri
 Image from ESO (Creative Commons licence) |
This cluster is 150 light years in diameter, about 15,800 light years away and contains about 6 million stars. This unusual cluster is known by Terragen astronomers to be the remains of a disrupted minor galaxy which is orbiting the Milky Way closely, periodically passing through the galactic plane.
Related Articles
Appears in Topics
Development Notes
Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 14 April 2015.
Initially published on 14 April 2015.
