Awesome :D Largest galaxy cluster discovered has more than 800 trillion suns! Light has just arrived from 7 billion years ago! http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=galaxy-cluster-101014-02.jpg&cap=An+infrared%2Foptical+representative-color+image+of+a+massive+galaxy+cluster+located+7+billion+light-years+from+Earth.+This+cluster+weighs+as+much+as+800+trillion+suns.+Galaxies+with+%22old%22+stellar+populations%2C+like+modern-day+ellipticals%2C+are+circled+in+yellow%3B+galaxies+with+%22young%22+stellar+populations%2C+like+modern-day+spirals%2C+are+circled+in+blue.+Images+taken+with+the+Infrared+Array+Camera+on+the+Spitzer+Space+Telescope+and+the+Mosaic-II+camera+on+the+Blanco+4-meter+telescope+at+the+Cerro+Tololo+Inter-American+Observatory.%0D%0ACredit%3A+Infrared+Image%3A+NASA%2FJPL-Caltech%2FM.+Brodwin+%28Harvard-Smithsonian+CfA%29+Optical+Image%3A+CTIO+Blanco+4-m+telescope%2FJ.+Mohr+%28LMU+Munich%29[%3Ca+href%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fscienceastronomy%2Fmost-massive-galaxy-cluster-distant-universe-101014.html%3EFull+Story%3C%2Fa%3E]
Saturday, October 16, 2010
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