The Cluster of the Corner ( ACO 3627 or Abell 3627 ) - a rich cluster of galaxies located in the direction of the Great Attractor [2] , probably serves as its center [3] . It is removed at a distance of about 68 megaparsec (221 million light-years) from the Earth [4] [5] . Despite the relative proximity and brightness, observations of the cluster are difficult, because it is in the Avoidance Zone - a region of the sky near the plane of our galaxy. Therefore, in the optical range, light from a cluster is strongly absorbed by cosmic dust . The mass of the cluster is about 10 15 solar masses [6] .
| Corner Cluster | |
|---|---|
| Galaxy cluster | |
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| Observational data ( Age J2000.0 ) | |
| Constellation | The rectangle |
| Right ascension | |
| Declination | |
| Distance | 67.8 M pc (221.1 million light years ) [1] |
| Supercluster | |
See also
- Veronica Hair Cluster
- Stove Cluster
- Virgo Cluster
Links
- ESO Press Photos 46a-j / 99
- WikiSky Corner Cluster: DSS2 , SDSS , GALEX , IRAS , H α , X-ray , astrophoto , sky map , articles and images
- Galaxy Cluster Has Two 'Tails' to Tell . NASA Image of the Day, January 22, 2010.
Notes
- ↑ Norma Cluster . NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database . Date of treatment October 22, 2006. Archived December 13, 2012.
- ↑ Able 3627 Cluster in the Great Attractor . Date of treatment October 30, 2013. Archived October 30, 2013.
- ↑ Great Attractor Center
- ↑ RC Kraan-Korteweg, in Lecture Notes in Physics 556, edited by D. Pageand JG Hirsch, p. 301 (Springer, Berlin, 2000).
- ↑ Abell 3627 . NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) . Date of treatment February 25, 2012. Archived December 13, 2012.
- ↑ H. Boehringer et al. Astrophys. J. 467 , 168 (1996). , RC Kraan-Korteweg et al. , Nature 379 , 519 (1996).