Central portion of the Virgo galaxy cluster

by: S.Guisard/Novapix
Reference: a-amg02-00058
Date: 2007-02-28

Galaxies M84 (NGC 4374) et M86 (NGC 4406), upper left corner of this image and the elliptical galaxy M87, center right. The Virgo cluster is at about 70 million light years from Earth and contains approximately 2000 galaxies.

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