Centaurus Cluster
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The Centaurus Cluster is a cluster of hundreds of galaxies, located approximately 170 million light-years away in the Centaurus constellation. The brightest member galaxy is the elliptical galaxy NGC 4696. Wikipedia
Constellation: Centaurus
Distance: 52.4 Mpc (170.9 Mly) h−1; 0.705
Number of galaxies: ~100
Redshift: 0.01140 (3 418 km/s)
X-ray flux: 15.7×10−11 erg s−1 cm−2 (0.5–2 keV)