A blast from the past for this week’s Picture of the Week. Today we feature the Coma cluster of galaxies made famous by Fritz Zwicky who applied the virial theorem to star motions in these galaxies to deduce that there must be “Dark Matter” associated with these galaxies. He carried out this groundbreaking work way back in 1933.
This image is a very old original Hyperstar with tiny little H9C OSC CCD composition. I must return to this one as soon as possible and go as deep as possible with the Hyperstar IV and the 2600MC Pro CMOS camera. Hopefully I will get it Spring 2025.
