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Abell 2744, John Bozeman

Abell 2744

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Abell 2744

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Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, is a giant galaxy cluster resulting from the simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters that took place over a span of 350 million years, and is located approximately 4 billion light years from Earth. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. The gas (around 20 percent) is so hot that it shines only in X-rays. Dark matter makes up around 75 percent of the cluster's mass. This cluster also shows a radio halo along with several other Abell clusters. It has a strong central halo, along with an extended tail, which could either be relic radiation, or an extension of the central halo

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope MAST Pipeline. Release date: 2022-10-20

Camera: NIRCAM

Color Mapped:

Red-F444W
Green-F356W
Blue-F277W

Processed with FITS Liberator, PixInsight and Photoshop 2023.

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