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Keywords: globular cluster, Milky Way
![Млечный Путь над бирюзовой страной чудес](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/05/29/0001900578/SeaBlueSky_Horalek_960.preview.jpg)
29.05.2023
What glows there? The answer depends: sea or sky? In the sea, the unusual blue glow is bioluminescence. Specifically, the glimmer arises from Noctiluca scintillans, single-celled plankton stimulated by the lapping waves. The plankton use their glow to startle and illuminate predators.
![Млечный Путь над Йеллоустоном](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/28/0001320307/mwyellowstone_lane_960.preview.jpg)
27.08.2014
The Milky Way was not created by an evaporating lake. The colorful pool of water, about 10 meters across, is known as Silex Spring and is located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Illuminated artificially, the colors are caused by layers of bacteria that grow in the hot spring.
![Млечный Путь над каменными грибами Аризоны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/02/23/0001332853/ToadSky_Lane_1080.preview.jpg)
22.02.2015
Which is older -- the rocks you see on the ground or the light you see from the sky? Usually its the rocks that are older, with their origin sentiments deposited well before light left any of the stars or nebulas you see in the sky.
![Северное сияние и Млечный Путь над Норвегией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/12/0001914233/ArcticNight_Cobianchi_1080.preview.jpg)
12.12.2023
What are these two giant arches across the sky? Perhaps the more familiar one, on the left, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. This grand disk of stars and nebulas here appears to encircle much of the southern sky.
![Миллионы звёзд в Омега Центавра](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/05/29/0001313403/N5139-2_cedic950.preview.jpg)
29.05.2014
Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is some 15,000 light-years away. The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun within a volume about...
![Миллионы звезд в ω Центавра](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/03/28/0001924654/NGC5139_mdf1024.preview.png)
28.03.2024
Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is 15,000 light-years away. The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun within a volume about 150 light-years in diameter.
![Шаровое скопление ω Центавра](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/07/11/0001933013/NGC5139_Stein_a1024.preview.jpg)
11.07.2024
Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance...
![Водопад и Млечный Путь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/11/01/0001779770/MilkyWayWaterfall_XieJie_960.preview.jpg)
1.11.2021
The dream was to capture both the waterfall and the Milky Way together. Difficulties included finding a good camera location, artificially illuminating the waterfall and the surrounding valley effectively, capturing the entire scene with...
![От Южного Креста к η Киля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/04/26/0001467624/FairbairnCROSSTOCARINA.preview.jpg)
26.04.2019
Tracking along the southern Milky Way this beautiful celestial mosaic was recorded under dark Brazilian skies. Spanning some 20 degrees it actually starts with the dark expanse of the Coalsack nebula at the lower left, tucked under an arm of the Southern Cross.
![M15: плотное шаровое звездное скопление](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/06/15/0001902616/M15-3_1024.preview.jpg)
15.06.2023
Messier 15 is an immense swarm of over 100,000 stars. A 13 billion year old relic of the early formative years of our galaxy it's one of about 170 globular star clusters that still roam the halo of the Milky Way.
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