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Title: The Shapley supercluster : the largest matter concentration in the local Universe
Related: The messenger, Vol. 124, p.30-31
Related: http://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.124-jun06/proust.pdf
Publisher: ESO
Date: 2006
Author/Creator: Proust, Dominique
Author/Creator: Quintana, Hernán
Author/Creator: Ragone, Cynthia J
Author/Creator: Carrasco, Eleazar R
Author/Creator: Reisenegger, Andreas
Author/Creator: Slezak, Eric
Author/Creator: Muriel, Hernán
Author/Creator: Dünner, Rolando
Author/Creator: Sodré Jr., Laerte
Author/Creator: Drinkwater, Michael J
Author/Creator: Parker, Quentin A
Description: Since the 1980s, we have known that the Local Group of galaxies is moving at a velocity of 366 ± 125 km/s in the direction of Centaurus. In this region, the well-known Shapley supercluster of galaxies (SSC) consists of many clusters and groups of galaxies in the redshift range 0.04 < z < 0.055. An international collaboration has highlighted this greatest matter concentration in the local Universe, less than 500 million light years from us. The SSC may be able to account for half of the sought for ‘Great Attractor’.
Description: 2 page(s)
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Physics

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