File:STSci-PRC01-33 omega centauri.jpg
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English: This image, a small region in the heart of the Omega Centauri globular cluster, was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Omega Centauri is so large in our sky that only a small portion of it could fit in the camera's field of view, but even this region contains some 50,000 stars in an area about 13 light years wide. A similar area located where our Sun resides would contain about a half a dozen stars. |
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| Source | http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0133a/ (direct link, original TIFF image) |
| Author | NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag. |
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| current | 20:53, 21 June 2009 | | 1,474 × 1,474 (3.19 MB) | wikimediacommons>Tryphon | Original resolution, better quality. |
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