Right ascension 04 31 12 Richness class 2 Redshift 0.05890 (17 658 km/s) | Declination −61° 28′ 00″ Bautz-Morgan classification I-II Constellation Reticulum | |
Distance
(co-moving) 248 Mpc (809 Mly) h−1
0.705 Similar Horologium Supercluster, Abell 1835, Abell 2667, Abell 2029, Abell 2597 | ||
Abell 3266 is a galaxy cluster in the southern sky. It is part of the Horologium-Reticulum supercluster. The galaxy cluster is one of the largest in the southern sky, and one of the largest mass concentrations in the nearby universe.
The Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County discovered that a large mass of gas is hurtling through the cluster at a speed of 750 km/s. The mass is billions of solar masses, approximately three (3) million light years in diameter and is the largest of its kind so far discovered (June 2006).
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