The Coma cluster of galaxies

by: A.Block/MLSC/Univ.of Az/Novapix
Reference: a-amg01-01006
Date: 2012-03-11

The Coma cluster of galaxies (Abell 1656) is one of the densest galaxy cluster known. It contains a thousand of galaxies and is located 330 million light years away. Two big elliptical galaxies dominate it: NGC 4874 (right) and NGC 4889 (left).

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