#galaxy cluster

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The Hydra Cluster, Abell 1060 // Chris DeCosta

[spacewonder19]

Galactic Gathering © JWST

Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1226+2152: its immense mass distorts and magnifies the light from more distant galaxies behind it - a spectacular example of gravitational lensing

[livingforstars]

The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies - August 1st, 1996.

"You are flying through space and come to...the Hydra Cluster of galaxies. Listed as Abell 1060, the Hydra Cluster contains well over 100 bright galaxies. Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally-bound objects in the Universe. All of the bright extended images in the above picture are galaxies in the Hydra Cluster, with the exception of unrelated diffraction crosses centered on bright stars. Several proximate clusters and galaxy groups might together create an even larger entity - a supercluster - but these clumps of matter are not falling toward each other. In fact, the Hydra Cluster is thought to be part of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster of galaxies. Similarly, our own Milky Way galaxy is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which is part of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies."

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Galactic wreckage in Stephan's quintet

[chibinotan]

Hidden Cluster

[celestialdaily]

The celestial object of the day is El Gordo!

This galaxy cluster is located 7 billion light-years away from Earth, and it formed when the universe was only half the age it is currently. Its ginormous mass (2.1 quadrillion solar masses) helps scientists see galaxies that are very far away thanks to gravitational lensing

[per-asperaa-ad-astra]

The first images from the ESA Euclid Telescope are here. It's impossible not to be fascinated about the universe.

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I was having trouble with inspiration until at 1AM when I decided to just draw this dreamy landscape.

[different-picture-daily]

Galaxy cluster ACO S 295

[quiltofstars]

The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1365, lower left) and the Fornax Cluster (Abell 373) // Aidan Beutel

[spacewonder19]

Galaxy Cluster Abell 370 © Chandra

[livingforstars]

Galaxy Cluster A2199 - January 22nd, 1997.

"It's bigger than a bread box. In fact, it's much bigger than all bread boxes put together. Abell 2199 is huge. It is a close, large cluster of galaxies, containing several thousands of galaxies centered around a central dominant galaxy. "Close," however, is only relative to other clusters of galaxies, since light takes about 50 million years to reach us from A2199. All of the fuzzy objects in the above picture are galaxies, but these galaxies do not contain most of the matter in the cluster. By studying clusters like A2199, astronomers conclude that some form of dark matter dominates the motion of the bright galaxies. What, exactly, this dark matter is poses one of the greatest astronomical puzzles of modern times."

[cosmicsabian]

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Stephan's Quintet

This galaxy cluster, appearing between 41 and 340 million light years away from us, was first discovered by the French astronomer E. M. Stephan in 1877. The galaxies are a mixture of spirals, barred spirals, and ellipticals. Some scientists think that the largest galaxy in this cluster, NGC 7320, is probably in front of what is really a quartet of interacting galaxies, and since then there have been many discussions between scientists with different theories on what this actually means.

[chibinotan]

Sunrise Arc

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