Omega Centauri is the Milky Way's largest star cluster | Astronomy Essentials
Omega Centauri in infrared light via Spitzer Space Telescope/ Wikimedia Commons. Omega Centauri, the largest globular star cluster of the Milky Way, contains about 10 million stars. This behemoth, with a diameter of 230 light-years, is 10 times more massive than a typical globular cluster. Despite all these stars, scientists released a study in 2018 that said Omega Centauri probably is not home to life. Stars pack so tightly inside Omega Centauri that the average distance between stars in the c...
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