Deep fields & lensing · ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week

A CLASH of galaxies

February 20, 2017 · ESA/Hubble · RX J1347.5–1145 · Virgo

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This cluster of galaxies, RX J1347.5–1145 , was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). The cluster is one of most massive known galaxy clusters in the Universe.

More Hubble images of RX J1347.5–1145