Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744):
Astronomers have recently revealed the latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744).
Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744):
- It is a giant galaxy cluster.
- It appears to be the result of a simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters.
- The crash took place over a span of 350 million years.
- The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass.
- The gas (around 20 percent) is so hot that it shines only in X-rays.
- Dark mattermakes up around 75 percent of the cluster’s mass.
- It is located around 4 billion light years from earth.
