Pavo-Indus Supercluster

Pavo-Indus Supercluster

The Pavo-Indus Supercluster is a neighboring supercluster to the Local Supercluster containing Local Group, a group of galaxies that contains our home galaxy, Milky Way galaxy. The Supercluster contains four main clusters, Abell 3656, Abell 3698, Abell 3742 and
Abell 3747 according to Atlas of the universe web page.

ee also

* supercluster

External links

* [http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/superc/pavind.html The Pavo-Indus Supercluster] from "An Atlas of the Universe"


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