Markarian's Chain in LRGB (Roger R. Sanchez Giammattei)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3311 · M 84 · M 86 · NGC 4351 · NGC 4374 · NGC 4387 · NGC 4388 · NGC 4402 · NGC 4406 · NGC 4413 · NGC 4425 · NGC 4431 · NGC 4435 · NGC 4436 · NGC 4438 · NGC 4440 · NGC 4458 · NGC 4461 · The Eyes

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Markarian's Chain in LRGB

The Markarian Chain, in the heart of the Virgo Star Cluster, is a curious chain of galaxies known as the Markarian Chain.

When viewed from Earth, galaxies are found along a gently curved line. Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. The other galaxies seen in the chain were discovered by William Herschel and are now known primarily for their catalog numbers in the New General Catalog (NCG ### #) by John Louis Emil Dreyer, published in 1888. He was finally named by the Armenian astrophysicist, Benjamin Markarian, who discovered his common movement in the early 1960s. The member galaxies include the two large but little detailed top-down lenticular galaxies M84 (NGC 4374) and M86 (NGC 4406), then "Markarian's eyes" two galaxies that interact with each other, NGC 4435 (left) and NGC 4438 (right), below the pair NGC 4458 (left) and NGC 4461 (right), below NGC 4473 (which half appears on the bottom left bank) and NGC 4477 (not shown in the image).

In the whole image there is a rest of galaxies, some that are not able to see well and others as to the right of the image that are noticed and that are not part of the chain, if not of the Virgo Cluster, to which they belong, it is The nearest and most studied cluster of galaxies contains more than 2,000 of them, and exerts an important gravitational influence on the Local Group of Galaxies that surrounds our Milky Way.

The Virgo Cluster center is located about 70 million light years in the direction of the constellation Virgo.

At least seven of the galaxies in the chain seem to move coherently, although others seem to be overlapping by chance.

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