Along with Virgo, the sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) resolved the star clusters in 100 galaxies of various sizes, shapes, and brightness – even in faint, dwarf galaxies.

The latter interpretation won out. But why did these galaxies cluster around Virgo? Was it chance or something more? In the 1950s, French astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs observed how these Virgo ...

It lies at the western edge of the Coma-Virgo Cluster of galaxies. From a dark site, an 11-inch telescope will reveal several hundred galaxies here, so take your time and be sure of your ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope, the researchers studied gas reservoirs in 51 galaxies from the thousands located within the Virgo cluster, 65 million light ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study exoplanets and the opportunity to refresh one’s perspectives.

However, they concluded this wasn’t actually part of the Milky Way or the Local Group, but was instead much farther away, part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies about 60 million light years away!

Blanco 4-meter Telescope's Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Virgo Cluster in order ... what fascinates astronomers is the Antlia Cluster's rich diversity of galaxies. Technological advances ...

So, an international team of astronomers conducted a systematic search for these intermediate-stage objects around the Virgo Cluster, a grouping of thousands of galaxies in the direction of the ...

Sitting roughly 50 million light-years away from us, the Virgo cluster is home to over 1,000 individual galaxies compressed into a relatively tight ball about 5 million light-years across.

Scan the region to the right of Vindemiatrix with a telescope on a dark night, and you’ll find dozens of fuzzy blobs: the brightest members of the Virgo cluster. Each of these galaxies is more ...