Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  IC 3173  ·  IC 3187  ·  IC 3209  ·  IC 3238  ·  IC 3239  ·  IC 3244  ·  IC 3258  ·  IC 3280  ·  IC 3303  ·  IC 3305  ·  IC 3311  ·  IC 3327  ·  IC 3331  ·  IC 3344  ·  IC 3349  ·  IC 3355  ·  IC 3356  ·  IC 3358  ·  IC 3363  ·  IC 3381  ·  IC 3382  ·  IC 3388  ·  IC 3393  ·  IC 3409  ·  IC 3413  ·  IC 3418  ·  IC 3432  ·  IC 3437  ·  IC 3442  ·  IC 3443  ·  And 986 more.
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Markarian Chain widefield, Cluster One Observatory
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Markarian Chain widefield

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Markarian Chain widefield

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"Markarian chain" is the name of a group of galaxies located in the constellation Virgo, stretched at a distance of 50-130 million light-years away from us. Although some galaxies in the attached image were discovered by Charles Messier in the 1700s and by William Herschel in the 1800s, this chain of galaxies was named after the Armenian astrophysicist Markarian, who discovered that this string of bright galaxies shares a common motion through space.

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Markarian Chain widefield, Cluster One Observatory