What is the Virgo Cluster?
Q: What is the Virgo Cluster?
A: The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies.
Q: Where is the center of the Virgo Cluster located?
A: The center of the Virgo Cluster is 53.8 ± 0.3 million light years (16.5 ± 0.1 million parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
Q: What is the Virgo Supercluster?
A: The Virgo Supercluster is a larger supercluster of galaxies of which the Virgo Cluster forms the heart, and our Local Group is an outlying member.
Q: How many member galaxies does the Virgo Cluster have?
A: The Virgo Cluster has about 1300 (and perhaps up to 2000) member galaxies.
Q: What is the mass of the Virgo Cluster?
A: The mass of the Virgo Cluster is about 1.2×1015 solar masses out to 8 degrees of the cluster's center or a radius of about 2.2 million parsecs.
Q: What were the two brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster discovered in the late 1770s and early 1780s?
A: The two brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster that were discovered in the late 1770s and early 1780s were the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and brightest member Messier 49.
Q: What is the brightest member of the Virgo Cluster?
A: The brightest member of the Virgo Cluster is the elliptical galaxy Messier 49.
