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Zooming into the Coma Cluster of Galaxies

The Coma Cluster of galaxies is one of the densest collections of galaxies in the universe. The Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys viewed a large portion of the cluster, spanning several million light-years across. This cluster contains thousands of galaxies and lies near the Milky Way's north pole, about 300 million light-years away from Earth. This movie combines the work of ground- and space-based observations. Its first part starts with a ground-based image from Akira Fujii, then transitions to imaging from the Digitized Sky Survey. The zoom ends with a closer look at Hubble's mosaic of the Coma Cluster.
  • Release Date
    June 10, 2008
  • Science Release
    Hubble’s Sweeping View of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

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Mar 28, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
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claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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