Pan of a Cosmic Web 3 Billion Light Years Away: Galaxy Cluster Abell 611 | Hubble

Pan of a Cosmic Web 3 Billion Light Years Away: Galaxy Cluster Abell 611 | Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope brings you this inky image of the galaxy cluster Abell 611, located roughly 3.2 billion light years from Earth. 

This object is a popular target for investigating dark matter, in part because of the numerous examples of strong gravitational lensing visible amongst the cluster’s intricate web of galaxies.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), P. Kelly, M. Postman, J. Richard, S. Allen, N. Bartmann  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: October 20, 2022

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