This is actually a portrayal of emptiness , even though it glitters with galaxies . The bright elliptical galaxy in the top center , ESO 306 - 17 , has absorbed every galaxy around it and grown to grievous proportions .
Overat Bad Astronomy , Phil Plait explains :
ESO 306 - 17 sit down about a billion light years from Earth . In this picture show it looks like it ’s surrounded by other galaxies , but that ’s an illusion : all the other galaxies you see here are either much close to us or much farther out . . . Michael West , who lead the team that took these images , tells me the little elliptical at the bottom leftfield of ESO 306 - 17 may be interact with it . It ’s unmanageable to tell ; but what is certain is that there are very few galaxy near the grownup one , far few than you ’d ask .
Plait adds that this solitary galaxy part certain property with our own cannibalistic wandflower , the Milky Way . Both our galaxy and ESO 306 - 17 are surrounded by globular clusters leave over from galaxies they consumed .
you could contemplate the universe in high resolution with thisgigantic variant of the figure .
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