These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study ...

Because the density of galaxies is high within clusters, galaxy collisions occur. One such collision can be seen in the lower right of the image of the Virgo cluster below. Galaxies at the center ...

Meanwhile, Chris Mihos, professor and chair of astronomy, has concluded from telescopic observations that in the nearby (cosmically speaking) Virgo Cluster of galaxies, 20 to 30 percent of the stars ...

Fully grown galaxy clusters, like the Virgo cluster which contains our galaxy and its local group, are large, gravitationally bound structures dominated by mature elliptical galaxies with little ...

Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...