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![]() Galaxy Cluster Basics![]() Radio TelescopesAstronomers use radio telescopes to study galaxies because radio waves can sometimes travel farther than visible light waves. With radio telescopes they have discovered that galaxies group together. Sometimes galaxies even run into each other and merge to become larger galaxies. Astronomers started to use radio telescopes in the 1930s to study the Milky Way.Cluster ClassificationClusters are defined as regular or irregular clusters. The term describes the arrangement of galaxies within the cluster. A regular galaxy cluster is spherical with more galaxies towards the center of the cluster. An irregular shape doesn't have main group in the center. Irregular clusters are also smaller than regular ones. No matter what type of cluster, you need to know that they move and change very slowly. Some astronomers believe that galaxy clusters change at about the same pace as the universe because they are so large.Beyond ClustersThere are times when galaxy clusters begin to group and form superclusters. Superclusters have around 10 smaller clusters. These superclusters can span huge distances, reaching a known size of about 3x1024 meters or three trillion trillion meters. You are about 1.5 to 2 meters tall. That's a pretty big group of stars.![]() ![]() |
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Useful Reference MaterialsEncyclopedia.com (Globular Cluster):http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/globular_cluster.aspx Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_cluster Encyclopædia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/223854/cluster-of-galaxies Cambridge University: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research/gr/public/gal_lss.html University of Hawaii: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/research/Galaxy_Clustering.shtml University of Virginia: https://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/whittle/astr553/Topic13/Lecture_13.html NASA: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/clusters_of_galaxies.html Stanford University: http://kipac.stanford.edu/kipac/research/galaxy_clusters | ||||||||||||||||||
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