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List of galaxies by size?

Daecon
in Astronomy and Cosmology

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Is there a list anywhere of the largest galaxies in the Virgo supercluster? Wikipedia doesn't really seem to have what I'm looking for.

Hi Daecon

 

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galgrps/vir.html

 

The Virgo cluster is a massive cluster of galaxies which dominates the Virgo supercluster. There are roughly 2000 galaxies in this cluster (although ninety percent of them are dwarf galaxies). This cluster has a diameter of approximately 15 million light years which is not much larger than our Local Group but it contains fifty times the number of galaxies. This map shows 600 of the brightest galaxies within 7.5 degrees of the centre of the cluster - this is an arbitary border, there are many other galaxies beyond this limit especially to the south of the cluster where there are several additional galaxy groups. The 160 largest galaxies are labelled on this map. There is also a negative version of this map which may be easier to print.

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Wow, thanks for that. I didn't realise there were quite so many!

Your welcome. I hope you go back to the home page and explore some of the other maps.

We are lucky there are so many free resources these days.

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