By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as ...

The Sombrero galaxy is located about 30 million light-years away from Earth at the edge of the Virgo galaxy cluster, and has a mass equal to about 800 billion Suns.

In the vicinity of the bright star Spica, for example, we find the famous Virgo cluster of galaxies, a system of several thousand galaxies bound together by gravitation and located some 60 or 70 ...

What it is: The Antlia Cluster of galaxies (also called Abell S636 ... Blanco 4-meter Telescope's Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Virgo Cluster in order to help solve one of astronomy's biggest ...

Blanco 4-meter Telescope's Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Virgo Cluster in order ... what fascinates astronomers is the Antlia Cluster's rich diversity of galaxies. Technological advances ...

INVESTIGATIONS with small radio telescopes 1 have been unable to detect 21-cm radiation from galaxies much beyond those in the M 81 group, at a distance of 3 mega-parsecs. The uncertainties in the ...

However, previous searches have not revealed the large population of galaxies-in-transition that you would expect to find. So Peking University astronomer Kaixiang Wang and colleagues conducted a ...

So, an international team of astronomers conducted a systematic search for these intermediate-stage objects around the Virgo Cluster, a grouping of thousands of galaxies in the direction of the ...

Join Miguel here as he takes us through his "Thousands of Galaxies Immersed in the Reddish Hydrogen Gas of Virgo Cluster" image. This image features the Virgo Cluster, a collection of galaxies ...

Virgo cluster is the nearest cluster of galaxies and contains over 2000 galaxies. (NASA/Abdullah Al-Harbi) Galaxies which exist in the vastness of space, consist of various celestial objects such as ...

However, they concluded this wasn’t actually part of the Milky Way or the Local Group, but was instead much farther away, part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies about 60 million light years away!