The Faraway Bullet Galaxy Cluster in Carina | Victor Blanco Telescope

The Faraway Bullet Galaxy Cluster in Carina | Victor Blanco Telescope

The Bullet Cluster is made up of two galaxy clusters that are colliding, one moving through the other, about 3.7 billion light-years away in the constellation Carina. These galaxy clusters act as gravitational lenses, magnifying the light of background galaxies. This phenomenon makes the Bullet Cluster a compelling piece of evidence supporting the existence of dark matter.

This image was taken with the 570-megapixel U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab.

Dark Energy Camera (DECam)

https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/ctio/victor-blanco-4m-telescope/decam/

Learn about the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope:
https://noirlab.edu/science/programs/ctio/telescopes/victor-blanco-4m-telescope

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA
Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab) & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

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