Omega Centauri
globular cluster · 10 million stars
17,090 light-years from Earth
Ten million stars packed into a ball 150 light-years across, possibly the stripped core of a small galaxy the Milky Way swallowed. Fast stars at its centre betray a black hole of ~8,000 Suns.
- 17,000 light-years · 12 billion years old
- near the centre, stars are 0.1 light-years apart; its night sky would blaze
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- NGC 5139