ABELL 1689 - Galaxy Cluster, Steven Marx

ABELL 1689 - Galaxy Cluster

ABELL 1689 - Galaxy Cluster, Steven Marx

ABELL 1689 - Galaxy Cluster

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ABELL 1689 - Raw fits data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.

Abell 1689 is a galaxy cluster in the constellation Virgo nearly 2.2 billion light years away. It is one of the biggest and most massive galaxy clusters known and acts as a gravitational lens, distorting the images of galaxies that lie behind it. It has the largest system of gravitational arcs ever found.



There is evidence of merging and gasses in excess of 100 million degrees. The massive gravitational nature of this system has been used to study dark matter and the effects of gravitational lensing.

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ABELL 1689 - Galaxy Cluster, Steven Marx