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Abell 370

Galaxy cluster · Galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus

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Abell 370
Picture: NASA, ESA, the Hubble SM4 ERO Team and ST-ECF, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

About Abell 370

The light we see from it set out 4.21 billion years ago, when the universe was 9.58 billion years old (redshift 0.375).

The map lists it as a galaxy cluster and shows it at the scale of the large-scale universe, drawn on the supergalactic plane.

Key numbers

Distance (comoving, today)4.93 billion light-years (1,510 Mpc)
Redshift z0.375
Light travel time4.21 billion years
Universe's age when this light left9.58 billion years
Distance methodredshift (Planck 2018 cosmology)
Supergalactic coordinatesSGL 302.4°, SGB -25.6°

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Cosmic web, a view about 11 billion light-years across.

From Wikipedia

Abell 370 is a galaxy cluster located nearly 5 billion light-years away from the Earth, in the constellation Cetus. Its core is made up of several hundred galaxies. It was catalogued by George Abell, and is the most distant of the clusters he catalogued.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Abell 370, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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