Globular cluster (fulldome artist's impression)

This is a fulldome (fish-eye) view showing an artist's impression of a globular cluster — a spherical collection of stars that orbits the centre of a galaxy. In this video, you are taken on a trip around the outside of such a globular cluster, of which there are over 150 in the Milky Way.

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Credit:

ESO/M.Kornmesser/L.Calçada. Background image: N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)

About the Video

Id:globularcluster
Release date:20 November 2014, 12:10
Duration:37 s
Frame rate:30 fps

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