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NGC 5139 (Omega Centauri) is a globular cluster in the Centaurus constellation, around 17000 light years from earth.
With an estimated 10 million individual stars making up the cluster and a mass around 10 times that of your typical globular, it’s the largest known globular cluster in our Milky Way galaxy. With those types of statistics, you’d expect earthlike planets (and potentially life?) to be abundant here. That’s probably highly unlikely though.
Stars in Omega Centauri are so densely packed that their gravitational interaction with one another would make it very difficult/unlikely for potential planets to maintain stable orbits and favourable conditions (extreme temperature fluctuations) long term.
Setup:
Planewave CDK24
Moravian C3-61000 Pro
Planewave L-600
Image acquisition details:
4-panel mosaic, each panel:
20x60” Red
15x60” Green
20x60” Blue
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