The Shapley Supercluster in Centaurus | Hubble Space Telescope

The Shapley Supercluster in Centaurus | Hubble Space Telescope

The Shapley Supercluster or Shapley Concentration (SCl 124) is one of the largest concentration of galaxies in the Universe. It forms a gravitationally interacting unit, pulling itself together instead of expanding with the rest of the Universe. It appears as a striking overdensity in the distribution of galaxies in the constellation of Centaurus. It is 650 million light-years from Earth.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Image Processing: Judy Schmidt
Release Date: Feb. 5, 2018

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