The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
Clustering Among Galaxies
Thus galaxies tend to occur in small intense knots,
the knots in clusters, and the clusters in larger
clusters, and so on until vast clouds of clusters are
formed. The general kinds of grouping look like this:
(1) A CLUSTER contains hundreds or even
thousands of galaxies with a marked tendency to
concentrate toward some center in the clusters.
(2) A GROUP of galaxies contains several, perhaps
up to 100 members but these groups do not show any
marked concentration toward a center.
(3) A CLOUD of galaxies is just a large group
containing hundreds or thousands of members
gathered together in an irregular structure with no
definite concentration toward a center.
(4) A CLOUD OF GROUPS is a distribution of
galaxies containing many groups in which the
concentration of galaxies in the spaces between the
groups is larger than the concentration of galaxies in
the general field.
(5) A CLOUD OF GALAXIES is the largest
agglomeration of matter so far known to us,
Supergalaxy or Metagalaxy. There are double
clusters, triple clusters and so on. Large bodies of this
type may contain as many as 100,000 member
galaxies.
The nearest groups of galaxies to our local group are
the M.81 group of galaxies and the Sculptor group
near the galactic south pole. A table of most of the
major clusters and groups within 12-15 megaparsecs
of our position is given elsewhere. Almost all of these
clusters occur between us and the very large cluster
of galaxies in Virgo at a distance of some 50 million
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