Panning across The Hercules Galaxy Cluster | European Southern Observatory

Panning across The Hercules Galaxy Cluster | European Southern Observatory

This video sequence takes a close look at the Hercules galaxy cluster, one of the youngest and most unusual of such clusters in the nearby Universe. Many spiral galaxies and interacting pairs of galaxies are visible. This very detailed view of this cluster comes from the VST telescope, the latest telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM 

Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute

Duration: 38 seconds

Release Date: May 5, 2023

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