Messier 90 belongs to a vast collection of more than 1,200 galaxies known as the Virgo Cluster, which has a diameter of 15 million light-years.
NASA and the European Space Agency have released a spectacular image of Messier 90 in the constellation Virgo—a beautiful spiral galaxy located around 60 million light-years from our own Milky Way.
This blueshifting stands in contrast to the way we see most galaxies in the universe. Because space is constantly expanding, the vast majority of galaxies that we see are moving away from us. As a result their light is"redshifted," meaning it undergoes an increase in wavelength which pushes it towards the red end of the spectrum.
Scientists think that Messier 90's peculiar direction of travel could be explained by the enormous mass of the cluster in which it resides. Such a mass would be capable of accelerating the individual galaxies to high velocities, sending them on strange orbits which can take them both towards and away from us over time.
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