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Telescopes Unveil View Of Remote, Massive Galaxy Cluster


Depicts: MS1054-0321
Copyright: Megan Donahue (STSCI), Isabella Gioia (Univ. of Hawaii), and NASA

These images, taken by three different telescopes, show the distant, hefty galaxy cluster MS1054-0321, containing thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars. Weighing the equivalent of several thousand of our Milky Ways, the cluster is 8 billion light-years from Earth.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
12-Mar-2026 19:08 UT

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