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Omega Centauri

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Omega Centauri

Brightest globular cluster, located in the constellation Centaurus. It has a magnitude of 3.7 and is visible to the unaided eye as a faint luminous patch. One of the nearer globular clusters (about 17,000 light-years away), it is estimated to contain hundreds of thousands of stars, including several hundred variable stars. John Herschel (see Herschel family) was the first to recognize it as a star cluster and not a nebula.



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The team finds that this cluster, Omega Centauri, is the nucleus of a small galaxy swallowed by the Milky Way.
The central region of the globular cluster Omega Centauri (pictured here) occupies a region of the Milky Way some 17,000 light-years from Earth and houses nearly a million stars.
The false-color photograph is a computer-enhanced image of stars near the center of the bright globular cluster Omega Centauri (inset).
 
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