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Optical image of the galaxies in the Coma cluster Credits: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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  1. franco_vazza (franco_vazza@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 10:20:00 UTC franco_vazza franco_vazza

    Like in real life, also in extragalactic astronomy there are VIPs*. If you are into clusters of galaxies, the top of the VIP probably is the
    Coma clusters of galaxies, aka Abel 1656.

    Let's do a small #AstroPhysicsFactlet to see why

    #astrodon
    #astronomy

    *=Very Important Potential (wells)

    In conversation about 11 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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