Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3550  ·  NGC 3552  ·  NGC 3554  ·  NGC 3558  ·  NGC 3561  ·  the Guitar
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Ngc 3559/Abell 1185, Jens Andersen Dolmer
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Ngc 3559/Abell 1185

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Abell 1185 is  located in the constellation Ursa Major approximately 400 million light-years away from Earth and spans one million light-years across.=description
Abell 1185 is a chaotic galaxycluster, so it is a rather young cluster without a big eliptical galaly in the center.  Galaxies of various shapes and sizes are drifting dangerously close to one another. Some have already been ripped apart in this cosmic maelstrom, shedding trails of matter into the void following their close encounter.
Abell 1185 is thought to be a member of the Leo Supercluster and is the brightest member of that grouping. The suggestion is that the cluster contains at least 85 galaxies and has an Abell richness class of 1, i.e. not very rich. The core of the group contains 6 galaxies listed in the NGC, with the brightest being NGC 3350. NGC 3350 was discovered by William Herschel in 1785.
Above the center is a strukture callet "the Guitar", where new small sattelite-galaxies are born.

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Ngc 3559/Abell 1185, Jens Andersen Dolmer