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Doug Finkbeiner and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Consortium

 

Reproduced by permission

 

I'll be blogging this with some fascinating details. In the meantime...

 

The Virgo cluster is around 60 million light years away. With around 2000 constituent galaxies, its enormous mass dominates our entire neighbourhood: it lies at the centre of the Local Supercluster.

 

The image size has been halved to fit on Flickr. The original is at

 

www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/dfink/

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