Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Containing millions of stars, this globular cluster is located roughly 17000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus. ...  

The presence of the black hole was only one of the reasons that determined the experts to conclude that the Omega Centauri globular cluster was, in fact, ...  

Paris, France (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 - Omega Centauri is one of the finest jewels of the southern hemisphere night sky, as ESO's latest stunning image beautifully illustrates. Containing millions of stars, this globular cluster is located roughly 17 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of...  

Omega Centauri. Credit: ESO A new image of Omega Centauri shows the globular cluster glittering away as one of the finest jewels of the southern hemisphere night sky. It contains millions of stars and is located about 17,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus, and...  

Use one of the following formats: The globular cluster Omega Centauri — with as many as ten million stars — is seen in all its splendour in this image ...  

Omega Centauri is one of the finest jewels of the southern hemisphere night sky, as ESO's latest stunning image beautifully illustrates. Containing millions of stars, this globular cluster is located roughly 17 000 light-years from Earth in the ...  

  NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage  This Hubble image focuses in on  the globular cluster M13. Click on  the picture for a zoomable view. Astronomers are offering a double dose of cosmic ornaments for the holiday, in the form of stunning images of globular clusters. From the Hubble Space...  

That’s Omega Centauri, a globular cluster. It contains millions of stars, all gravitationally bound to one another. It orbits the Milky Way and is currently ...  

The hundreds of thousands of stars orbiting inside the globular cluster M13 (HST/NASA) This image is one of the latest views from the Hubble Space Telescope, closely resembling a toy snow globe. In this case, over a hundred thousand glittering stars are the little faux snow flakes and the...  

Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 05, 2008 - Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This...  

Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky.  

Cram more than 100000 stars into a cluster "only" 150 light-years wide and you get something like this - the globular cluster astronomers know as M-13. ...  

Like swirling, shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, this image captures an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky.  

Hubble and M13. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: C. Bailyn (Yale University), W. Lewin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A. Sarajedini (University of Florida), and W. van Altena (Yale University) Must be the season for globular cluster images...  

In fact, it is a globular cluster, a celestial formation that comprises over a hundred thousand stars swirling around in a small region of space. ...