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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Video: Hubble Helps Fast-Forward the Motion of Stars | Wired Science | Wired.com

Video: Hubble Helps Fast-Forward the Motion of Stars | Wired Science | Wired.com: "To human eyes, stars seem like some of the most unmoving objects in the universe. From the perspective of thousands of years, however, they swarm like bees.

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped bring to life such motion in 100,000 stars drifting around within a distant celestial blob called Omega Centauri, a globular cluster orbiting the Milky Way galaxy about 16,000 light-years from Earth."

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