Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  13.04  ·  194 Prokne  ·  HD107774  ·  HD107827  ·  HD107888  ·  HD108272  ·  HD108422  ·  HD108577  ·  HD108614  ·  HD108915  ·  IC 3258  ·  IC 3280  ·  IC 3303  ·  IC 3311  ·  IC 3344  ·  IC 3349  ·  IC 3355  ·  IC 3363  ·  IC 3382  ·  IC 3388  ·  IC 3393  ·  IC 3443  ·  IC 3457  ·  IC 3459  ·  IC 794  ·  M 84  ·  M 86  ·  M 87  ·  NGC 4305  ·  NGC 4306  ·  And 24 more.
M87 and Markarian's Chain (2 image mosaic), Geoff
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M87 and Markarian's Chain (2 image mosaic)

M87 and Markarian's Chain (2 image mosaic), Geoff
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M87 and Markarian's Chain (2 image mosaic)

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Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies lying along a smoothly curved line forming  part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
At least seven galaxies in the chain appear to move coherently, although others appear to be superposed by chance.

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