Interstellar Sphere by MagikUnicorn

Bryce • Space • posted on Apr 11, 2008

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Bryce Booleans Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called Omega Centauri, this sparkling orb of stars is like a miniature galaxy. It is the biggest and brightest of the more than 150 similar objects, called globular clusters, that orbit around the outside of our Milky Way galaxy. Stargazers at southern latitudes can spot the stellar gem with the naked eye in the constellation Centaurus. Spitzer's new infrared view, which has been combined with visible-light data, can be seen at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/20080410.html . While the visible-light observations highlight the cluster's millions of jam-packed stars, Spitzer's infrared eyes reveal the dustier, more evolved stars tossed throughout the region.