Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  The star 11Com  ·  The star 11Vir  ·  The star 12Vir  ·  The star 24Com  ·  The star 25Com  ·  The star 27Com  ·  The star 29Com  ·  The star 6Com  ·  The star οVir  ·  The star ρVir
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Markarian's Chain and the Virgo Cluster, Bill
Markarian's Chain and the Virgo Cluster, Bill

Markarian's Chain and the Virgo Cluster

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Markarian's Chain and the Virgo Cluster, Bill
Markarian's Chain and the Virgo Cluster, Bill

Markarian's Chain and the Virgo Cluster

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The Virgo cluster is a massive cluster of galaxies which dominates the Virgo supercluster. There are roughly 2000 galaxies in this cluster and it has a diameter of approximately 15 million light years which is not much larger than our Local Group but it contains fifty times the number of galaxies. Markarian's Chain near the center of the image is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. An Annotated version of the image has been uploaded for reference.

This widefield image was from 95 x 90sec at 135mm f/2.8

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