Abell 2667

The Abell 2667 galaxy cluster captured by the Hubble Space Telescope . A comet galaxy (blue) can be seen at the top left.

Abell 2667 is a galaxy cluster in the Sculptor constellation . It is about 3.2 billion light years from Earth and about 2.4 million light years in extent. The name is derived from the entry in the Abell catalog .

On the image released by the Hubble Space Telescope , a cometary galaxy can be seen, which is racing through the galaxy cluster at around 3.5 million km / h. The gas in the cluster snatches stars from the galaxy , giving it a tail like a comet .

Web links

• Hubble Space Telescope
• Spitzer Space Telescope ( Memento from August 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• ESA Space Science
• Illusion and Evolution in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667 - Astronomy Picture of the Day of March 5, 2007 (English).
• SIMBAD query
• NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE