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Tales of ... The colorful stars galore inside globular star cluster Omega Centauri See image below

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster.

The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the homesteaders of our Milky Way galaxy. The stars in Omega Centauri are between 10 billion and 12 billion years old. The cluster lies about 16,000 light-years from Earth. (Continued >>)

Portrait of the core of the giant star cluster, Omega Centauri, taken by Wide Field Camera 3, which was installed during Hubble's Servicing Mission 4

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