The Virgo III Groups, or Virgo III Cloud, are a series of at least 75
galactic cluster
An open cluster is a type of star cluster made of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way galaxy, and ...
s and individual
galaxies
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. ...
stretching approximately off the eastern edge of the
Virgo Supercluster.
Parts of it are in the constellations
Virgo,
Libra, and
Serpens Caput. It is located approximately to from the
Solar System, at a
right ascension
Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol ) is the angular distance of a particular point measured eastward along the celestial equator from the Sun at the March equinox to the (hour circle of the) point in question above the earth.
When paired w ...
of to .
These clusters include:
*NGC 5248 Group:
**NGC 5248
**UGC 8575
**UGC 8614
*NGC 5364 Group:
**NGC 5300
**NGC 5348
**NGC 5356
**NGC 5360
**NGC 5363
**NGC 5364
*NGC 5506 Group:
**IC 976
**NGC 5496
**NGC 5506
**NGC 5507
**UGC 9057
*NGC 5566 Group:
**NGC 5560
**NGC 5566
**NGC 5569
**NGC 5574
**NGC 5576
**NGC 5577
**UGC 9215
*NGC 5638 Group:
**IC 1024
**NGC 5636
**NGC 5638
**NGC 5668
**UGC 9310
**UGC 9380
*NGC 5746 Group:
**NGC 5658
**NGC 5690
**NGC 5691
**NGC 5692
**NGC 5705
**NGC 5713
**NGC 5719
**NGC 5725
**NGC 5740
**NGC 5746
**NGC 5750
**UGC 9299
**UGC 9469
**UGC 9482
*NGC 5775 Group:
**IC 1066
**IC 1067
**IC 1070
**NGC 5770
**NGC 5774
**NGC 5775
*NGC 5846 Group:
**NGC 5813
**NGC 5831
**NGC 5846
**NGC 5846A
**NGC 5854
**NGC 5864
**NGC 5869
**UGC 9746
**UGC 9751
**UGC 9760
*Additional galaxies in the group:
**IC 1014
**NGC 5334
**NGC 5470
**NGC 5584
**NGC 5645
**NGC 5669
**NGC 5701
**NGC 5792
**NGC 5806
**NGC 5838
**NGC 5921
**UGC 9169
**UGC 9500
See also
*M96 Group
*Leo II Groups
*Virgo II Groups
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Galaxy clusters
Virgo Supercluster