Galaxy NGC 1270 in The Perseus Galaxy Cluster | Gemini North Telescope

Galaxy NGC 1270 in The Perseus Galaxy Cluster | Gemini North Telescope

NGC 1270 is just one member of the Perseus Cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies that lies around 240 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus. This image shows a dazzling collection of galaxies in the central region of this enormous cluster. It was taken with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory. It is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by NSF's NOIRLab.

Since 2002 Gemini North has also been known as the Frederick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope. Dr. Gillett, who died in April 2001, was one of the primary visionaries of the Gemini telescopes. He was instrumental in assuring that the design of Gemini's twin 8-meter telescopes would make major scientific contributions to astronomy.

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Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/
Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Acknowledgements: PI: Jisu Kang (Seoul National University)
Release Date: Oct. 21, 2024

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