Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 17 minutes ago

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NGC 1270 is just one member of the Perseus Cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies that lies around 240 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus. This image, taken with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, which is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, captures a dazzling collection of galaxies in the central region of this enormous cluster.

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Credit:
Images and Videos: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/N. Bartmann (NSF NOIRLab)/J. Pollard/NASA/ESA/F. Summers (STScl)
Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Acknowledgements: PI: Jisu Kang (Seoul National University)
Music: Stellardrone - In Time

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