Virgo cluster

noun

, Astronomy.

1. a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.

Example Sentences

A team of international researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster, revealing a gas outflow so large that it would take 20,000 years for light to travel from one side to the other.

From Science Daily

Although statistically inconclusive, the results do show tentative hints of some hotspots, such as one toward the Virgo Cluster, a large group of galaxies about 50 million light-years from Earth.

From Scientific American

The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.

From Salon

Outside the Milky Way, -he thinks 40-meter-class telescopes connected by QHDs will resolve stars in galaxies out to the Virgo cluster and also measure the proper motions of these galaxies.

From Scientific American

The Milky Way is part of a small cluster of galaxies called the Local Group, which is on the edge of the Virgo cluster, a conglomeration of several thousand galaxies.

From New York Times