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Show 181: Clusters in a Cluster

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Added: Thursday, September 18, 2008 
Source: SkyWatch and HubbleWatch

Summary:

About 54 million light-years from Earth, roughly 2,000 galaxies have ganged up in a gravitational grouping called the Virgo Cluster. Centering that cluster is a massive galaxy that is itself surrounded by many clusters-in this case, star clusters. But this massive galaxy has more of these star clusters than astronomers expected it to have. Could it be stealing from its neighbors?

 

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