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Virgo II Groups
Series of galaxy clusters From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Virgo II Groups, also known as the Virgo II Cloud, Virgo Southern Extension, or the Virgo S Cloud, are a series of at least 100 galactic clusters and individual galaxies stretching approximately 30 megalight-years (9,198,041.81 parsecs) off the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster.[1][2][3] It is located approximately 55 Mly (16.86 Mpc) to 80 Mly (24.53 Mpc) from the Solar System, at a right ascension of 12h 00m to 13h 30m .[1]
These clusters include:[1]
- M61 Group:
- NGC 4030 Group:
- NGC 4030
- UGC 6970
- UGC 7000
- NGC 4179 Group:
- NGC 4697 Group:
- NGC 4699 Group:
- NGC 4753 Group:
- NGC 4856 Group:
- NGC 4995 Group:
- IC 4212
- NGC 4942
- NGC 4981
- NGC 4995
- NGC 5084 Group:
- Additional galaxies in the group:
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