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Omega Centauri is the largest globular cluster known to be orbiting the Milky Way, and is one of the few visible to the naked eye, lying in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It was catalogued as a star by Johann Bayer, hence its Bayer designation, before its non-stellar nature was discovered by Edmond Halley.

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