Omega Centauri
The largest and brightest globular cluster of our galaxy, millions of stars, visible to the eye as a fuzzy star.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Globular star cluster
- Distance
- 15,800 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 3.9, visible to the eye from a dark site, easy in binoculars
- Size in the sky
- About as wide as the full Moon
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Catalogue
- NGC 5139
Figures from OpenNGC, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikipedia, “Omega Centauri”, CC BY-SA 4.0 (van de Ven et al. 2006; Skiff 1999). All sources