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Default The Globular Cluster - Omega Centauri

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The Globular Cluster - Omega Centauri

Discovered by Edmond Halley in 1677 NGC 5139 is better known as Omega
Centauri. It is the most luminous Milky Way globular and the brightest
globular cluster in the sky. With a 5 million solar mass, it has about
the same mass as some of the smallest galaxies.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/sou...ky5/south5.htm

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.
http://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm

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