Omega Centauri: ten million stars held by gravity

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Omega Centauri sits about 17,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus and is visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. The moving model is a smoothed field, not star-by-star forces, so a few thousand dots stand in for ten million stars; its sizes and speeds are scaled to fit the screen.