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Q&A: Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters, AGN, and Quasars
Q:
When I look at the picture of the Centaurus galaxy cluster at
the web site http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0146/
which part of the data below the image gives me a rough idea
about how far this cluster is from the Earth?
A:
The distance to the Centaurus cluster is about 170 million
light years.
See more on distance here: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/scale_distance.html.