The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
			
		
		
			Credit & Copyright: 
Dean Rowe
		
		
			Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. 
The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
pictured above is one of the densest 
clusters known - it contains thousands of 
galaxies. 
Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars - 
just as our own
Milky Way Galaxy does. 
Although nearby when compared to most other 
clusters, 
light from the Coma Cluster 
still takes hundreds of millions of years to reach us. 
In fact, the 
Coma Cluster is so big it takes light 
millions of years just to go from one side to the other! 
Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are 
ellipticals, 
while most 
galaxies outside of clusters are 
spirals. 
The nature of 
Coma's X-ray emission is 
still being investigated.