Cluster of galaxies found:

Astronomers peering billions of light years into space have detected the largest, most extensive collection of galaxies ever registered in the early days of the universe, a “proto-supercluster” they nicknamed Hyperion after a titan from Greek mythology.

Hyperion has a mass 1 million billion times greater than the sun and is so distant that it is viewed from earth as it looked billions of years ago.

“Hyperion is like 5,000 galaxies of the Milky Way”, astronomer Steffen Miefke, the chief of opera-

tions for the European Southern Observatory, told Reuters. The ESO operates the Very Large

Telescope (VLT) in Chile, which detected Hyperion.

Hyperion is an adolescent in

astronomy terms. Its distance from earth means astronomers are viewing it as it was created

just over 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave rise to the universe about 13.8 billion years ago. (Agencies)