The Ladder of Scale · structure
Fornax Cluster
Cluster · 6 million ly
- Coordinates
- 03h 38m 29.4s −35° 27′ 07.9″ · ACO S 373 via Sc
- RA (deg)
- 54.6225
- Dec (deg)
- -35.4522
- Within
- Local Supercluster (Virgo)
- Notes
- The second-nearest cluster, small but well studied because it sits in a clean part of the southern sky.
- Distance (ly)
- 62000000
- Population
- ~60 large galaxies
- Size (ly)
- 6000000
- Kind
- Cluster
- Redshift
- 0.0046
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