Millions and Millions

Post by **rcj** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:25 pm

Instead of trying to portray yet another very commonly taken object in the sky, Omega Centauri was taken to carefully cover the core details. Interestingly, the core is so densely packed that stellar collisions actually happen in there, though not very often. But since most of the core stars are so old (12 billion years), collisions occur in the thousands. Some collisions are near-misses, and have resulted in "impromptu" close binary star systems.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:26 am

Like +1

cataclysm · Post by **cataclysm** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:03 pm

Wow! So the stars are so dense!!!!

timatworksg · Post by **timatworksg** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:33 pm

Nice shot on a different take on a common target. Yes the density is thick. Great study. It does have a fair amount of older hot stars.

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:03 pm

lost count

wucheeyiun · Post by **wucheeyiun** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:56 pm

very compact, dense and nice

Post by **Airconvent** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:26 pm

Thanks for sharing an old favourite Remus!
BTW, there are 681,123,236 stars in there. Just thought you should know.
Oops...2 just collided. Make that 681,123,235.

Post by **rcj** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:55 pm

Airconvent wrote:Thanks for sharing an old favourite Remus!
BTW, there are 681,123,236 stars in there. Just thought you should know.
Oops...2 just collided. Make that 681,123,235.

hahahha....

shirox · Post by **shirox** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:02 pm

wow what programs did u used to calculate the stars?

Post by **zong** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:19 am

random number generator?