These stars are putting on quite a show 😎 Nearly 18,000 light-years away, millions of sparkling stars are tightly…
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These stars are putting on quite a show 😎 Nearly 18,000 light-years away, millions of sparkling stars are tightly bound together by gravity in a globe-like shape. This type of collection is called a globular cluster, and this specific one is named Omega Centauri. Omega Centauri is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth without a telescope! The cluster is about 10 times as massive as other big globular clusters – almost as massive as a…