The area around SpARCS1049+56 (ground-based image)

Date: 10 September 2015
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Copyright: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2
This image shows the region of sky around the the distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049+56. It took the light of the cluster 9.8 billion light-years to reach us. The cluster houses at least 27 galaxies, probably more, and has a combined mass equal to 400 trillion Suns.
Last Update: 1 September 2019