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Abell 1835

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Constellation(s)
  
Virgo

Declination
  
+02° 51′

Redshift
  
0.25320

Right ascension
  
14 01

Richness class
  
0

Abell 1835

Distance (co-moving)
  
1,023 Mpc (3,337 Mly) h−1 0.705

Abell 1835 is a galaxy cluster in the Abell catalogue. It is a cluster that also gravitational lenses more-distant background galaxies to make them visible to astronomers. The cluster has a red shift of around 75,900 km/s and spans 12′.

In 2004, one of the galaxies lensed by this cluster was proposed to be the most distant galaxy known, Galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916.

References

Abell 1835 Wikipedia