Science Source Stock Photo - Optical image of a portion of Virgo cluster

Optical image of a portion of Virgo cluster

Description: Optical image of part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The Virgo cluster is the nearest major cluster of galaxies to our Local Group & lies some 50 million light years away. It consists of about 1000 galaxies spread across a region 10 million light years wide. The image shows several elliptical & spiral galaxies, but the field is dominated by the giant elliptical galaxies M86 (NGC 4406) at centre & M84 (NGC 4374) at centre right. The photograph was taken using the 1.2m UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia.

Credit:

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh / Anglo-Australian Telescope Board/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS2169038

Legacy Identifier: SD6016

Type: Image

Size: 3170px × 2480px (~22 MB)

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