Hubblecast 47: Pandora's Cluster

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This joint episode of the Hubblecast and ESOcast presents Abell 2744, an unusual cluster of galaxies nicknamed "Pandora's Cluster" by the astronomers who have studied it. Looking at the galaxies, gas and dark matter in the cluster, scientists have reconstructed the series of huge collisions that created it, and have uncovered some strange phenomena never seen together before.

More information: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1111a/

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  • perhaps this it has also relation with our planet later!

  • Very interesting.

  • Osmos!!

    :)

  • Don't forget the scale of this thing (because I did several times while watching these animations)! This are clusters of GALAXIES colliding! Just two galaxies colliding is almost unimaginable. Now think how often these galaxy collisions happen within these clusters alone. Awesome!

  • hmmm one more step forward nice interseting and amazing

  • Clusters crashing is something amazing!!!

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