The Ladder of Scale · structure
Centaurus Cluster
Cluster · 15 million ly
- Coordinates
- 12h 48m 49.2s −41° 18′ 16.9″ · ACO 3526 via Sc
- RA (deg)
- 192.2051
- Dec (deg)
- -41.3047
- Within
- Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster
- Notes
- One of the nearest rich clusters, and one of the brightest X-ray sources in the sky because of the hot gas trapped between its galaxies.
- Distance (ly)
- 155000000
- Population
- a rich cluster
- Size (ly)
- 15000000
- Kind
- Cluster
- Redshift
- 0.0114
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