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The Perseus cluster (Abell 426) is a cluster of galaxies in the constellation Perseus. It has a recession speed of 5,366 km/ s and a diameter of 863 ′ . [ 1 ] It is one of the most massive objects in the known universe , containing thousands of galaxies immersed in a vast cloud of multimillion-degree gas.
Euclid’s sensitive near-infrared instruments are able to pierce through thick layers of dust in space, offering new views of the spiral galaxy. ... The Perseus Cluster is located 240 million ...
NGC 957 (also known as Collinder 28) is a loosely bound open cluster located in the constellation Perseus. It has an apparent magnitude of 7.6 [ 1 ] and an approximate size of 11 arc-minutes . It is young at less than 11 million years old.
The images spanned four areas of the relatively nearby universe, including 1,000 galaxies belonging to the massive Perseus cluster just 240 million light years away, and more than 100,000 galaxies ...
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NGC 1260 is a spiral or lenticular galaxy [3] located 250 million light years away from earth in the constellation Perseus. [4] It was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on 19 October 1884. [5] NGC 1260 is a member of the Perseus Cluster [6] [3] and forms a tight pair with the galaxy PGC 12230. [3]
NGC 1277 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Perseus. It is a member of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies and is located approximately 73 Mpc (megaparsecs) [2] or 220 million light-years from the Milky Way. It has an apparent magnitude of about 14.7. It was discovered on December 4, 1875 by Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse.
NGC 1245 is an open cluster in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by William Herschel in 11 December 1786. [2] It is located 3° southwest of alpha Persei and can be spotted with 10x50 binoculars. [3] The cluster is nearly 1 billion years old. [4] NGC 1245 has about 200 members the brightest of which are of 12th magnitude. [5]