Still, this excellent telescopic view records the region of the Virgo Cluster around its dominant giant elliptical galaxy M87 . M87 can be seen as a fuzzy patch near the picture's bottom center. Click on the image for an uncropped, labelled version which includes the NGC catalog numbers for most of the visible galaxies. On average, Virgo Cluster galaxies are measured to be about 48 million light-years away. The Virgo Cluster distance has been used to give an important determination of the Hubble Constant and the scale of the Universe .
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