The Microscopium Supercluster is a
supercluster
A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; they are among the largest known structures in the universe. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group galaxy group (which contains more than 54 galaxies), which in turn ...
located in the constellation
Microscopium. First noticed in the early 1990s, it has received little study. It is composed of Abell clusters
3695 and
3696, while the relations of Abell clusters
3693 and
3705 in the same field are unclear.
See also
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Abell catalog
The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift ''z'' ≤ 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George O. Abell's original "Northern Survey" of 1958, whi ...
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Large scale structure of the universe
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List of Abell clusters
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List of superclusters
A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; they are among the largest known structures in the universe. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group galaxy group (which contains more than 54 galaxies), which in turn ...
References
Galaxy superclusters
Microscopium
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