As the title asks; is Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) in ED? I searched for both names in the galaxy map and neither came up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Centauri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Centauri
Is Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) in ED?
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Probably not.
Globular clusters orbit our galaxy outside the galactic disk. They contain tens of thousands to millions of member stars that are bound together by gravity, and remain intact for billions of years.
Globular clusters orbit our galaxy outside the galactic disk. They contain tens of thousands to millions of member stars that are bound together by gravity, and remain intact for billions of years.
This is in the Milky Way galaxy, refer to the link in my OP. It is only 15,800 LY's from Sol so it should be in the ED galaxy.
Elite has some Star Clusters hand placed, but I don't know if that one is one of them
https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Cluster
But "It is estimated to contain approximately 10 million stars" so maybe they're still working on it.
either way, those clusters are not named on galaxy map so finding them that way might not be as straightforward.
It is inline with Spica so I looked 15K - 17K Ly's out and there is nothing there so Frontier must not have put it in. Considering it is supposedly the brightest cluster of stars in the Milky Way I am surprised that they did not include it.
No, there are sadly no globular clusters in the game. 
Unless the stars have actually been mapped and entered in one of the catalouges FDEV used for the manual insertion of stars it won't be there, and ten million stars is a lot of stars. The stellar forge won't have created anything specific like that in the same location without manual intervention, and with no catalogue to go on I don't see how it's possible.
It does let you search for NGC objects, which may or may not be clusters though. If you put "NGC 236" into the search box, it dumps you in some random (or at least, it looks random) part of the NGC 2363 cluster, with all it's shiny real-life stars.
OP, have you tried searching with just "NGC 5139" in the search box? (The space between C and 5 is crucial, it seems to search on exact matches only)
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Omega Centauri is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way's immediate region. However, it is far above the galactic plane, as most globular clusters are. So, even if they had added it to the game, you could never go there, as there would be not enough stars to create a bridge between it and the galactic plane, allowing you to cross the gap to visit it.
And no, they can't add it now. Adding or moving just one star in the ED galaxy is a major pain for them to do, as it tends to destroy the entire galaxy and replace it with another that is almost, but not quite, the same. Adding 10 million new stars, by hand, would be a Herculean task, for minimal gain - as I said, no-one could ever visit there.
And no, they can't add it now. Adding or moving just one star in the ED galaxy is a major pain for them to do, as it tends to destroy the entire galaxy and replace it with another that is almost, but not quite, the same. Adding 10 million new stars, by hand, would be a Herculean task, for minimal gain - as I said, no-one could ever visit there.
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Big shame that none of them are in the game, but it'd be nice to have them as objects in the skybox..
It's not that a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way has a well defined border. It just gets less dense towards the edge, exactly like the one in ED. Many spirals have halos over and under the core, and that is a typical place to find globulars. So in a welly engineered Conda, they might be reachable
One of the closest globulars to Sol is Messier 4 which is about 7 Kly away. Globulars are interesting from an astronomical POV, since they hold many mysteries, like the "Blue Stragglers":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_straggler
Furthermore they are pretty. Even with a good set of binoculars, a globular like Messier 13 is quite a sight:
I for one would love to see globulars in ED. It would be interesting to see one from inside the core. Since they are very very old, they might even be where the Guardians went after dumping all the blueprints.
In the meantime, we have the open clusters, and some of those are pretty as well. Before I jumped into ED the Pleiades (Messier 45 or the Seven Sisters) was one of my favorites in the night sky, and with the Thargoids living there...
One of the closest globulars to Sol is Messier 4 which is about 7 Kly away. Globulars are interesting from an astronomical POV, since they hold many mysteries, like the "Blue Stragglers":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_straggler
Furthermore they are pretty. Even with a good set of binoculars, a globular like Messier 13 is quite a sight:
I for one would love to see globulars in ED. It would be interesting to see one from inside the core. Since they are very very old, they might even be where the Guardians went after dumping all the blueprints.
In the meantime, we have the open clusters, and some of those are pretty as well. Before I jumped into ED the Pleiades (Messier 45 or the Seven Sisters) was one of my favorites in the night sky, and with the Thargoids living there...
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