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The Giants of Omega Centauri

apod.nasa.gov — Globular star cluster Omega Centauri is some 15,000 light-years away and 150 light-years in diameter. Packed with about 10 million stars, Omega Cen is the largest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

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  • twertyto, on 05/01/2008, -0/+10Infrared images are cool but then tend to have a poor resolution compared to visible and ultraviolet light images. Check out this Hubble picture of the same region:

    http://heritage.stsci.edu/2001/33/big.html
  • freezejeans, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4I find it amazing that there can be 10 million stars packed together so densely like that.
  • twertyto, on 05/01/2008, -1/+4Which one giants or globular clusters?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giants

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_clusters
  • mcduck, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3This must be close to the neutral zone.
  • k7jeb, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Even in a globular cluster there is loneliness... and dying.
  • mcduck, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Edit: My comment was useless.
  • twertyto, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Why make these comments? No one gives positive remarks to them and they always get buried.

    Why would anyone even care how many diggs it takes to get to the front page?

  • Suricou, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Just dont go anywhere near the civilisation in the middle. Nastily xenophobic.
  • kahakauai, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1And who still thinks there isn't intelligent life somewhere out there?
  • Aeroslin, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Thanks, but the following entry sums up the purpose of the question:

    Although it appears that globular clusters contain some of the first stars to be produced in the galaxy, their origins and their role in galactic evolution are still unclear.
  • bakkouz, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2Here is the archive for all these NASA Space images:
    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
    you can stop submitting them one by one to digg now.
  • PUNJABISINGH, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1ITS FULL OF STARS!!!
  • Aeroslin, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2How do they form? What powers their birth and what is their fate?
  • leerayIG88, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I wish I can be in space.
  • nonpareil, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Awesome. Makes me want a Chunky bar.
  • gimmeslack12, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2Life, yes. Intelligent (including Earth), not so likely.
  • twertyto, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Simply having a large set of possibilities doesn't indicate that an event would occur. You must take into account the probability for that event to occur and ONLY THEN do you look at the set of possibilities to estimate a likelihood. 100s of billions of stars is alot but if the odds are 1 in a trillion that life would develop in the planetary systems of one of them then we should feel lucky that even we exist.
  • DestroyFascism, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1I wonder how many of those stars have a planet containing life. 10%? more....?
  • bcamp1973, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Wow, and to think it's all only 6,000 years old...
  • zadadka, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1My iGoogle has the APOD and Digg RSS feeds alongside each other....it's always amusing for me to see today's APOD in the Digg feed too.
    Dugg every time, in case you're wondering.
  • inactive, on 05/01/2008, -2/+1Meh. This one isn't as good as a lot of the other ones...
  • inactive, on 05/01/2008, -6/+1Boorrrrinnggg...
  • ericdano, on 05/01/2008, -10/+2God damn, now something with 30 diggs ends up on the front page? What?

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