Abell 2256

Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Bolonga/K. Rajpurohit et al.; XMM-Newton: ESA/XMM-Newton/Univ. of Bolonga/K. Rajpurohit et al. Radio: LOFAR: LOFAR/ASTRON; GMRT: NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; VLA: NSF/NRAO/VLA; Optical/IR: Pan-STARRS Image #1: composite of X-ray, Radio and Optical images Image #2 & #3: Radio / Radio Halo Image #4: optical / IR Info: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/a2256/ "Astronomers have captured a chaotic scene of mergers and collisions between at least three galaxy clusters." "The giant galaxy cluster forming from this collision is Abell 2256, located 780 million light-years from Earth. " "Scientists used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and three radio telescopes — LOFAR, the GMRT and the VLA — to study Abell 2256."