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Meanings of galaxy cluster in English

Russian
скопление галактик
Portuguese
aglomerados de galáxias
Spanish
cúmulo de galaxias
Catalan
grup de galàxies

Structure made up of a gravitationally-bound aggregation of hundreds of galaxies; is larger than a galaxy group.

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скопление галактик
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Examples for "cluster of galaxies"
Examples for "cluster of galaxies"
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Astronomers have found the most distant cluster of galaxies ever seen, shown at a never-before-seen stage of development.
The Irish Times
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Observations of the Coma cluster of galaxies indicated to Zwicky that they were rotating too fast to be stable.
The Physics of Superheroes
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The black hole responsible for the blast came from a cluster of galaxies and forged a crater that could hold 15 Milky Way galaxies.
News.com.au
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This is because astronomers believe the filaments trapping the cluster of galaxies are carrying enough gas to "feed" the black hole, enabling it to grow.
The South African
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The Virgo Cluster of galaxies, of which the Milky Way is a part, will hold together, as will our orbital pirouette with the Andromeda Galaxy.
Wired
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Galaxies are usually gravitationally bound to other galaxies, creating massive galactic clusters.
Wired
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Galactic clusters also contain some of the largest accumulations of dark matter in the universe.
Wired
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It has become mere pantomime, as intricate and as meaningless as the space-time curves that guide galactic clusters through a measureless cosmos.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Usage of galaxy cluster in English
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Sometimes the distortions are obvious, like in the Hubble image of a distant galaxy cluster above.
Wired
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A galaxy cluster is a collection of galaxies that orbit one another bound together by gravity.
Wired
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The textbook case is the Bullet Cluster, where one galaxy cluster is seen shooting through the other.
Wired
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In the foreground of one new image is a galaxy cluster named Abell 2744, containing hundreds of galaxies.
The Guardian
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Image: Light bends around the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2218 in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Wired
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At the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster is NGC 1275, a galaxy surrounded by mysteriously glowing gas filaments.
Wired
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These observations told them how strong each galaxy cluster's gravitational pull was, from which its total mass could then be calculated.
The South African
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According to Nasa, this ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today.
The Irish Times
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The increase in brightness of Icarus, the researchers say, is due to an additional magnification boost from a star within the galaxy cluster.
The Guardian
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Captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and combined with data from infrared and optical telescopes, this image shows the farthest galaxy cluster ever detected.
Wired
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And if your birthday is on, say, 23 August, then your lucky image is the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744.
The South African
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This undated image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a ghostly ring of dark matter in a galaxy cluster designated Cl 0024+17.
Reuters
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These plumes of gas contain as much mass as all the gas within 12,000 light-years of the center of the galaxy cluster M87 belongs to.
Wired
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How do we measure gravity's pull in colliding galaxy clusters?
The South African
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The large-scale structure of galaxies and galaxy clusters.
Wired
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When viewed close up, the matter in the universe bunches up into stars, galaxies and galaxy clusters.
Wired