Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3307  ·  NGC 3308  ·  NGC 3309  ·  NGC 3311  ·  NGC 3312  ·  NGC 3314  ·  NGC 3316
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Abell 1060 The Hydra Cluster, Sean Liang
Abell 1060 The Hydra Cluster
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This image captures a corner of a galaxy cluster called the Hydra Cluster. The cluster consists of 157 bright galaxies, each containing several million to hundreds of billions of stars.

Some galaxy clusters are huge, containing thousands of galaxies, and we happen to live inside such a cluster called 'the Virgo Supercluster'. In it, our Milky Way Galaxy occupies a small neighbourhood with several other galaxies, namely 'the local group'.

Think of all the stars inside a galaxy, and all the galaxies inside a cluster; then recognise the fact that even a supercluster is nothing but a small node in an even larger structure called ' the cosmic web'. All the matters are threaded into this tapestry by gravity and dark energy, forming the grandest structure in the cosmos.

More about 'the Cosmichttps://youtu.be/gCx_e1Qa9OE

(The data was acquired from Telescopelive, which I processed using pixinsight and photoshop)

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Abell 1060 The Hydra Cluster, Sean Liang