Panning Across The Fornax Galaxy Cluster & Galaxy NGC 1365 | ESO
The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest of such groupings beyond our Local Group of galaxies. This pan sequence, based on a Very Large Telescope (VLT) survey image, shows the central part of the cluster in great detail. The field includes the elegant barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1365 and the big elliptical galaxy NGC 1399.
Distance: 62 million light-years
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Acknowledgement: Aniello Grado and Luca Limatola
Duration: 50 seconds
Release Date: April 13, 2016
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