#centaurus

Centaurus A by Hubble

Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: R. O’Connell (University of Virginia) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee

omega centauri (in Centaurus)

Omega Centauri is one of the finest globular clusters in the Southern Milky Way and has no equal in the Northern Sky. It is a gathering of millions of mostly ancient stars at a distance of about 18,000 light years. These stars formed billions of years before the sun and its retinue of planets appeared.

(From Ancient Light: A Portrait of the Universe)

trek-tracks:

I think, as a fandom, we really don’t make enough of the fact that Joanna McCoy canonically almost had to go through a Tarsus IV situation…

…and if Jim had heard that story before, possibly from Bones, what that conversation would have been like.

omegaCentauri_B.Centaurus Constellation Region. May 1999 por Chris L. Grohusko
Por Flickr:
Omega Centauri, or NGC 5139, largest star cluster in the sky!!!!!!!!!!!!!