Tag: Coma Cluster

Web Of Cosmic Dark Matter Has Been Identified In The Coma Cluster

MessageToEagle.com | February 9, 2024

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The Subaru Telescope has achieved a significant breakthrough by pinpointing the terminal ends of dark matter filaments within the Coma cluster, which

his is a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of a portion of the immense Coma cluster of over 1,000 galaxies, located 300 million light-years from Earth. Hubble's incredible sharpness was used to do a comprehensive census of the cluster's most diminutive members: a whopping 22,426 globular star clusters. Among the earliest homesteaders of the universe, globular star clusters are snow-globe-shaped islands of several hundred thousand ancient stars. The survey found the globular clusters scattered in the space between the galaxies. They have been orphaned from their home galaxies through galaxy tidal interactions within the bustling cluster. Astronomers will use the globular cluster field for mapping the distribution of matter and dark matter in the Coma galaxy cluster. Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Mack (STScI) and J. Madrid (Australian Telescope National Facility)

Astronomy

Hubble Data Helped To Assemble Mosaic Of Central Region Of Coma Cluster

MessageToEagle.com | November 29, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to do a comprehensive census of 22,426 globular star clusters found to date. Globular clusters are much smaller than entire