The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest of such groupings beyond our Local Group of galaxies. This new VLT Survey Telescope image shows the central part of the cluster in great detail. At the lower-right is the elegant barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1365 and to the left the big elliptical NGC 1399.
Credit:
ESO. Acknowledgement: Aniello Grado and Luca Limatola
About the Image
| Id: | eso1612a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 13 April 2016, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1612 |
| Size: | 34676 x 24237 px |
About the Object
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 3 35 31.23 |
| Position (Dec): | -35° 34′ 32.01″ |
| Field of view: | 121.36 x 84.83 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 0.2° left of vertical |
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