Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  HD108348  ·  HD108487  ·  HD108577  ·  HD108613  ·  HD108915  ·  IC 3303  ·  IC 3344  ·  IC 3349  ·  IC 3355  ·  IC 3363  ·  IC 3382  ·  IC 3388  ·  IC 3393  ·  IC 3432  ·  IC 3442  ·  IC 3443  ·  IC 3457  ·  IC 3459  ·  IC 3475  ·  IC 3476  ·  IC 3489  ·  IC 3492  ·  IC 3500  ·  IC 3501  ·  IC 3509  ·  IC 3520  ·  IC 3540  ·  IC 3567  ·  IC 3583  ·  M 84  ·  And 34 more.
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Markarian_Chain - HaLRGB, Massimo Marchini
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Markarian Chain is a stretch of galaxies in the Virgo Clòuster, far away between 50 and 60 mkillions l.y. from Earth. In the early 1960s the Soviet astrophysicist Benjamin Markarian discovered the common motion shared by at least 7 of tne member galaxies

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