The enormous gravity of the Virgo Cluster makes it the center of a larger structure, called the Local Supercluster. This collection of nearly 100 clusters, and thousands of galaxies, stretches ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ultraviolet light." ...

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...

The Earth is in a galaxy called the Milky Way, which is in the Local Group in the Virgo Supercluster. The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a ...

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Virgo A (M87, NGC 4486) is located at the center of the Virgo Cluster. This galaxy, about 50 million light-years from Earth (1 light-year is the distance light travels ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a spiral galaxy, NGC 4900, and a nearby star in the constellation Virgo. Despite appearing close, the star is ...

which is part of the Virgo Cluster — an assembly of galaxies at the center of the Virgo Supercluster. The gravitational tug ...