Why is this galaxy cluster so red? Nearby clusters have galaxies with colors that are much more yellow and blue. A leading explanation is that this cluster of galaxies lies so far across our universe (z~1) that cosmological time dilation significantly reddens the light. If true, this cluster might lie too far away to have formed in a dense universe, implying that our universe is not very dense. HST 035528+09435 is one of the reddest clusters found in the Hubble Space Telescope 's Medium Deep Survey . Astronomers will now work to confirm the high distance to this cluster , and contemplate what it signifies about the nature of our universe .
8 September 1998
A Cluster Too Far
