It takes two to tango💃⁣:

⁣When this galaxy cluster was first discovered, it was documented as a single cluster, but further research revealed that it was actually two. @NASAHubble spotted this double cluster of brightly-glowing galaxies in the constellation Eridanus. One group is around 2.3 billion light-years away, and the other, included in the Massive Cluster Survey, is about 5.4 billion light-years from Earth. The two groups are known to have 30 trillion and 120 trillion times the mass of our Sun, respectively. ⁣

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Image description: A cluster of galaxies, concentrated around what appear to be two large elliptical galaxies. The rest of the black background is covered in smaller galaxies of all shapes and sizes. In the top left and bottom right, beside the two large galaxies, some galaxies appear notably distorted into curves by gravity.⁣

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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Smith, H. Ebeling, D. Coe⁣

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03 December 2023