Antria

Space & Cosmos

Dark energy camera captures sparkling galaxies in the Antria star cluster

The Antria Galaxy Cluster (Abell S636) is a group of at least 230 galaxies located approximately 130 million light-years away in the direction of the Antria constellation (air pump). There are many different types of galaxies, including lenticular galaxies, irregular galaxies, and microdwarfs. This cluster is dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies: NGC 3268 (center) and NGC 3258 (bottom right).…