Star Cluster
The largest globular cluster in the galaxy, holding millions of stars, and possibly the stripped core of a galaxy the Milky Way swallowed.
| Type | Star Cluster |
|---|---|
| Cluster type | Globular |
| Distance from Earth | 15,800 ly |
| Diameter | 1,419,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 7.96 × 10^36 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 3.9 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 1677 |
At 1,419,000,000,000,000 km across, Omega Centauri is 111,363,993,094 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 4,000,000 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Omega Centauri tonight left it around 15,800 years ago.
It has been on record since 1677.
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