When you see it with your unaided eye, Omega Centauri looks like a fuzzy, faint star. But it is, in fact, a collection of 10 million stars.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.10,000 stars is the dividing line between a globular cluster and an open cluster. Open clusters have fewer stars than that, and tend to be newer stars just leaving the nursery. An example would be the Pleiades. Globular clusters are made up of very old, longer lived stars that live in groups of 10,000 or more. These are typically found above and below the plane of the galaxy they are a part of, or as my old instructor would phrase it, "a spherical shell".
chilehead9
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Aug 12, 2019
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Any person claiming their rat bag camel jocky alleged gawd born in a dirty donkey stable "created" that or any other galaxy confesses complete mentally ill delusions no matter how brainwashed and tortured from birth onward
GreenAtheist
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Dude, we need to talk. It seems I can't post a picture of anything without you spewing your hatred of whatever is bothering you at the time all over it. It's a picture of the stars. Can we keep religion and politics off this group page please? I have seen you post very thoughtful comments showing great insight and that is ALL I want to see.
I have seen it looking like the photo in a 13 in. telescope - awesome
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