Astro 1: `Slides' for Class 22 - Galaxies in Clusters and Groups



Optical image of the Virgo Cluster





X-ray image of the Virgo Cluster





Optical image of the Coma Cluster





Optical image of the Hercules Cluster





Hubble Space Telescope image of the Abell 2218 cluster





Schematic diagram of the Local Group





Hickson Compact Group #40 (a group of galaxies)





Stephan's Quintet (a group of galaxies)





The colliding galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 - "The Antennae"





The Cartwheel Galaxy - The result of a galaxy collision





Schematic diagram of the region around the Virgo Cluster





Nearby superclusters of galaxies





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