Sharpless 29 iPhone Case T-shirts The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is

The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest such groupings beyond our own Local Group of galaxies

Discovered in November 1834 by British astronomer John Herschel

visible-light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is colored red

captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust

Sharpless 29 iPhone Case T-shirts The Fornax Galaxy Cluster isThe OmegaCAM imager on ESOs VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula. Credit: ESO