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NGC 2419. This globular cluster is one of the most remote globulars of our Milky Way galaxy, at a distance of about 300,000 light years from the solar system and at the same distance from the galactic center. Its orbit brings it further away from the galactic center than the Magellanic Clouds (almost double the distance), but it can questionably be assigned as an element of the Milky Way. At this great distance it takes three billion years to make one trip around the galaxy.
Sometimes called "the Intergalactic Wanderer"

Taken using the Bareket Observatory in Israel
3 x 3 min RGB

Part of the 100 hours of astronomy for the IYA, 2 - 5 April 2009