Omega Centauri
Taken by Dr. Mark Elowitz on February 6, 2025 @
Remote controlled telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile from Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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The massive globular cluster Omega Centauri imaged using the iTelescope Network's T73 Planewave CDK14 telescope located at Rio Hutado Valley, Chile (MPC TX07). The aperture size is 356 mm and the focal length is 2563 mm. Omega Centauri contains about several million Population II stars (i.e., metal poor stars). The massive (~4 million solar masses) globular cluster's age is about 12 billion years old, and it lies about 5200 parsecs from Earth. Questions remain whether Omega Centauri is a disrupted core of a dwarf galaxy that was later absorbed by the Milky Way galaxy.
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