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28-FEB-2010

Omega Centauri central 20 light years

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The image above is just 4 X 4 arc min and shows only the very central 20x20 lightyears of
the clusters core. The stellar density in the center is nearly 200 stars/ cubic lightyear
or about 80000 times as high as in the solar neighbourhood.


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