Evropská jižní observatoř

Kategorie: Kupy galaxií, Zpět na celou fotogalerii.

Popis (v anglickém jazyce):

The distant cluster of galaxies MS 1008.1-1224 is some 3 billion light-years distant (redshift z = 0.301). The galaxies in this cluster - that we observe as they were 3 billion years ago - are different from galaxies in our neighbourhood; their stellar populations, on the average, are younger.

This is a composite VRI image with the individual exposures lasting 300 seconds; image quality 0.8 arcsec FWHM; field 5 x 3 arcmin2; North is to the right and East is up.

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