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Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere Monday, April 14, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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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. (source: spitzer.caltech.edu)
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