The Taurus void, 100 million light years in diameter, is large and circular, with walls of galaxies on either side of it. It also lies near what is perhaps the most obvious void in the sky, called the Taurus Void. (This cluster is being used representatively on the Nearest Superclusters page.) Because of its structure, the Perseus-Pices Supercluster is perhaps the most obvious supercluster in the sky. At one end of it is the Perseus Cluster (Abell 426), which is one of the most massive galaxy clusters within 500 million years of us.
Perseus-Pices Supercluster: The Perseus-Pisces supercluster is made up of many galaxy clusters which form a long, dense wall which stretches almost 300 million light years. The dominant cluster here is the Centaurus Cluster (Abell 3526) the image of it is from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey. The images of the Hydra and Antlia Clusters used were from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey.Ĭentaurus Supercluster: Because the plane of our own Galaxy cuts across the region of the sky that the Centaurus Supercluster is in, any images of galaxy clusters within it will have nearby foreground stars in it. There are other smaller clusters too - the richest of these is the Antlia Cluster. It contains a similar number of galaxies to the Virgo Cluster. Hydra Supercluster: The only galaxy-rich cluster in the Hydra Supercluster, is the Hydra Cluster (Abell 1060). The Leo Cluster image is from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey. Forbes (Swinburne University, Australia). The Coma Cluster image is copyright Duncan A. For more information on the Virgo Cluster, see the Local Supercluster page.Ĭoma Supercluster: The two major galaxy clusters that dominate here are the Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) and the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367). The cluster that is next richest in galaxies is the Fornax Cluster. Virgo Supercluster: This is our Local Supercluster - it is called the Virgo Supercluster because it is dominated by the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Please note that many of these images have foreground stars from our galaxy in them.
Each supercluster is represented by images of the major clusters within it, as noted below. The supercluster images on the Nearest Supercluster pages are not photos of the superclusters themselves.
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