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Markarian's Chain, Misi Róbert
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Markarian's Chain

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One of the most beautiful sights of the spring sky is the "Markarjan Chain" (named after the Armenian astrophysicist Benjamin Markarjan) consisting of 13 galaxies. The galaxies arranged in a chain in the group have their own motion in one direction, and their distance from Earth is 52 million light years. Thanks to the 25-hour exposure time, more than 100 very distant galaxies became visible in the photo! Some of them are more than 2 billion light-years away.....among them, the farthest one in the photo is PGC169380, which is approximately 2.4 billion light-years away!

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Markarian's Chain, Misi Róbert

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