The Fornax Cluster (Andre Brossel)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Fornax (For) · Contains: NGC 1365 · NGC 1369 · NGC 1374 · NGC 1375 · NGC 1379 · NGC 1380 · NGC 1381 · NGC 1382 · NGC 1386 · NGC 1387 · NGC 1389 · NGC 1399 · NGC 1404

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The Fornax Cluster is a cluster of galaxies lying at a distance of 19 megaparsecs (62 million light-years).=10.5px It has an estimated mass of (7±2)×1013 solar masses, making it the second richest galaxy cluster within 100 million light-years, after the considerably larger Virgo Cluster. It may be associated with the nearby Eridanus Group. It lies primarily in the constellation Fornax, with its southern boundaries partially crossing into the constellation of Eridanus, and covers an area of sky about 6° across or about 28 sq degrees.The Fornax Cluster is a particularly valuable source of information about the evolution of such clusters due to its relatively close proximity to the Sun. It also shows the gravitational effects of a merger of a galaxy subgroup with the main galaxy group,=10.5px which in turn lends clues about the associated galactic superstructure.[At the centre of the cluster lies NGC 1399.=10.5px Other cluster members include NGC 1316 (the group's brightest galaxy), NGC 1365, NGC 1427A, NGC 1427 and NGC 1404.

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