The Shapley Supercluster or Shapley Concentration (SCl 124) is the largest concentration of galaxies in our nearby universe that forms a gravitationally...
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The Shapley attractor is a massive cluster of galaxies located in Shapley Supercluster, most well known for its high density and gravitational pull. Like...
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{{Redirect|Local Supercluster|the supercluster discovered in 2014. The name Local Supercluster (LS) replaced the one of Virgo Supercluster (obsolete and...
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Great Attractor (category Shapley Supercluster)
cluster of galaxies near the Shapley Supercluster, which lies beyond the Great Attractor, and which is called the Shapley Attractor. A massive galaxy filament...
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existence of galaxy superclusters, Shapley later discovered a large and distant example, which was later named the Shapley Supercluster. He estimated the...
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A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; they are among the largest known structures in the universe. The Milky Way...
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Hydra–Centaurus superclusters may be connected. The neighboring superclusters to the Laniakea Supercluster are the Shapley Supercluster, Hercules Supercluster, Coma...
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(654 million light-years) from Earth, and is possibly a member of the large Shapley Supercluster. With a diameter of about 540.89 kiloparsecs (1.76 million light-years)...
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of Harlow and Martha Alice E. Shapley, American astronomer Shapley may also refer to: the Shapley Supercluster Shapley (crater), a lunar impact crater...
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ESO 444-46 (category Shapley Supercluster)
Centaurus. It lies within the core of the massive Shapley Supercluster, one of the closest neighboring superclusters. It is one of the largest galaxies in the...
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gravitationally bound structures in the universe after some superclusters (of which only one, the Shapley Supercluster, is known to be bound). They were believed to...
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Dipole repeller (category Shapley Supercluster)
repeller is directly opposed to the Shapley Attractor, an over-density of galaxies located in the Shapley Supercluster. The dipole repeller's apparent repulsion...
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largest and most massive superclusters known, comparable to the massive Shapley Concentration in the nearby universe. The supercluster consists of 43 massive...
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of the Great Attractor and other galaxy clusters, including the Shapley Supercluster, behind it. The Local Group, a cluster of gravitationally bound galaxies...
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The Hercules Superclusters are near the Coma Supercluster, helping make up part of the CfA2 Great Wall. In the 1930s, Harlow Shapley studied the structure...
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near the midpoint of the floor. 1123 Shapleya, minor planet Shapley Supercluster "Shapley (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology...
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the Local Group is being gravitationally pulled towards either the Shapley Supercluster or the "Great Attractor", with which we would eventually merge if...
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Julian year; approximately 9.46 trillion kilometres). This list includes superclusters, galaxy filaments and large quasar groups (LQGs). The structures are...
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galaxy clusters in the Abell catalogue, named for George O. Abell. Shapley Supercluster Comet names are often given for the astronomer(s) who discovered...
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Attractor – Region of overdensity of galaxies within the local supercluster Shapley Supercluster – Largest concentration of galaxies in our local universe...
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7 degrees west of Alpha Pavonis, and is a central member of the Shapley Supercluster. The galactic wind bearing NGC 6810 and the interacting NGC 6872/IC...
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Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster Centaurus 12h 48m 51.8s −41° 18′ 21″ 0 I-II 3558 Shapley 8 Cluster Shapley Supercluster 13h 27m 54.8s −31° 29′ 32″ 4 I 3562 Shapley Supercluster...
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with accurate masses are limited only to galaxies within the Laniakea Supercluster and to active galactic nuclei. Another problem for this list is the method...
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previously believed. From this data, Shapley and Ames therefore created a new hierarchy of clusters called a supercluster, which is a cluster of galaxy clusters...
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years. The Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster is a galaxy supercluster, second in size only to the Shapley Supercluster in the local universe (anything...
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C. Jones; et al. (1991). "X-ray and optical observations of the Shapley supercluster in Hydra-Centaurus". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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Vaucouleurs recognized the existence of a flattened “local supercluster” from the Shapley-Ames Catalog in the environment of the Milky Way. He noticed...
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Adelaide Ames (section Shapley-Ames Catalog)
Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirteenth Magnitude, which was later known as the Shapley-Ames catalog. Ames was a member of the American Astronomical Society. She...
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The new definition of the local supercluster subsumes the prior defined local supercluster, the Virgo Supercluster, as an appendage. 2020 — Astronomers...
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dominates along with the Andromeda Galaxy. The group is part of the Virgo Supercluster. At the largest scale, these associations are generally arranged into...
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