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- Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri (2023 Mar 16)
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Re: APOD: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri (2023 Mar 16)
Hello Chris, Point taken, thank you. In thinking about an individual star inside a very large homogeneously-distributed 3D array of similar stars, it stands to reason that the net gravitational force in any direction, on said star, is nearly zero. For the stars at the edge of such a cluster I imagin...
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri (2023 Mar 16)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3989
Re: APOD: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri (2023 Mar 16)
Sitting around, I am calculating that the mean instellar distance in this cluster is around 0.262 light years. 150 ly dia, 1.8E6 ly^3, 55.55 stars/ly^3, 55.55^0.3333≈3.82, 1/3.82≈0.262ly. Just checking. Interesting that they don't end up in one big accretion! Perpetually in orbit around each other? ...