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- Large bright constellation of the southern
- hemisphere, represented as a centaur. It
- contains the closest star to the Sun, Proxima
- Centauri. Omega Centauri, the largest and
- brightest globular cluster of stars in the
- sky, is 16,000 light years away. Centaurus A,
- a peculiar galaxy 15 million light years
- away, is a strong source of radio waves and
- X-rays.
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