Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  HD116586  ·  HD116663  ·  HD116789  ·  HD116980  ·  NGC 5139  ·  Omega Centauri  ·  omega Cen
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Omega Centauri, Joon Ren
Omega Centauri, Joon Ren

Omega Centauri

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Omega Centauri

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Omega Centauri is a globular cluster which are large groups of gravitationally bound stars forming spheroids. It's the most massive of its kind within the Milky Way plane and the only one to carry a Bayer naming designation of a star. Omega Centauri's origin is unique to other globular clusters, itself being a former galaxy that got disrupted and absorbed into the Milky Way. What remains now is the core and at it's center, stars are as close as 0.1 light years from each other.

Processing was heavily focused on getting maximum resolution through Drizzle Integration, BlurXterminator AI and unsharp masking to resolve as many stars as possible.

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