Asteroids in Virgo
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, shows four galaxies in the Virgo cluster: Messier 59, Messier 60, NGC 4647, and NGC 4638. It also shows the tracks of three asteroids, which appear in this image as trails of green dots.
- Date
- 2011-02-01
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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