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Central part of the Virgo cluster

author: Alex Conu/Novapix

reference: a-amg02-00063

Image Size 300 DPI: 28 * 22 cm

Located about 70 million light years away, the Virgo cluster is a gigantic collection of several thousand galaxies that dominate our local part of the universe. Markarian's Chain of galaxies is in the center, including giant elliptical galaxies M86 and M84. M87 is another giant elliptical galaxy at lower left in the photo.

Keywords for this photo:

2010 - ASTRONOMY - ELLIPTICAL GALAXY - GALAXY - GALAXY CLUSTER - LENTICULAR GALAXY - M84 - M86 - M87 - NGC 4374 - NGC 4387 - NGC 4388 - NGC 4402 - NGC 4406 - NGC 4413 - NGC 4425 - NGC 4438 - NGC 4459 - NGC 4461 - NGC 4473 - NGC 4474 - NGC 4476 - NGC 4477 - NGC 4478 - NGC 4486 - SPIRAL GALAXY - STAR - VIRGO - VIRGO CLUSTER -