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A multinational group of astronomers has discovered a distant cluster of galaxies

galaxy_cluster

The galaxy cluster in question, named SpARCS104922.6+564032.5 (SpARCS1049+56), contains at least 27 galaxies and has a total mass equal to about 400 trillion Suns.

It is located in the Ursa Major constellation and is so far away that its light took 9.8 billion years to reach us.

 

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