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globular cluster in the constellation Centaurus
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Omega Centauri is a massive ball of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by gravity, located in the constellation Centaurus in the southern sky. It is the largest and brightest globular cluster known and orbits our Milky Way galaxy.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star cluster
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 5.2
- Image
- Omega Centauri by ESO.jpg
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- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.24
- Commons category
- NGC 5139
- catalog code
- 2FGL J1326.4-4729
- discoverer or inventor
- Edmond Halley
- apparent magnitude
- 3.198
- right ascension
- 201.697000
- declination
- -47.479472
- radial velocity
- 238
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- -1.647
- declination component of proper motion
- -6.746
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- parallax
- 0.1368
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