Space missions . Solar System . Volcanoes 101 . Site map . Note the strong warping of the galaxy at left, possibly caused by gravitational interaction with one or both of the bright galaxies above and below it.
White dots are mostly foreground stars in our Milky Way.
ESO To figure out why, researchers like to take pictures of the lumps, so they'll have something to study. Problem is, our observational perch is imbedded in a galaxy of its own, and the stars of the Milky Way have a tendency to get in the way. Imager overcome some of that problem, revealing previously unseen dwarf galaxies in a rich cluster. In the foreground are mostly whitish stars of the Milky Way. The Great Attractor Galaxies are not distributed evenly through the Universe.