Intergalactic Vista From A Lonely Star (artist's impression)
This is an artist's concept of the view of the nighttime sky from the surface of a hypothetical planet orbiting an "intergalactic" star in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, based on recent research with the Hubble Space Telescope.
This is an artist's concept of the view of the nighttime sky from the surface of a hypothetical planet orbiting an 'intergalactic' star in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, based on recent research with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit:James Gitlin (STScI)
About the Image
About the Object
Name: | Virgo Cluster |
Type: | Local Universe : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System Local Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
Category: | Illustrations |