Evropská jižní observatoř

Kategorie: Hvězdokupy, Zpět na celou fotogalerii.

Popis (v anglickém jazyce):

This photo of Omega Centauri, the brightest and
largest globular cluster in the sky, was obtained
with the Danish 1.5 m telescope at the ESO La Silla
observatory. It shows the central part only; the
cluster is actually much larger than the field
reproduced here. At a distance of about 16,500
light-years, the diameter of the field corresponds to
a linear distance of about 90 light-years. Within
this area, there are hundreds of thousands of stars
which belong to the cluster.

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