Tuesday, November 6, 2012

THE STELLAR MOTION OF OMEGA CENTAURI

FROM: NASA
Zooming in on Omega Centauri Stellar Motion



This movie sequence begins with a ground-based image of the giant globular star cluster Omega Centauri and zooms very tightly in to a Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of the cluster. In a simulation based on Hubble data, the stars appear to be moving in random directions, like a swarm of bees

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