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Perseus-Pisces supercluster
  ابرخوشه‌ی ِ پرسءوس-ماهی  
abarxuše-ye Perseus-Mâhi
Fr.: superamas de Persée-Poissons  

A long, dense chain of galaxies with a length of almost 300 million → light-years, constituting one of the largest known structures in the → Universe. At the left end of the supercluster lies the massive → Perseus cluster (A426), one of the most massive clusters of galaxies within 500 million light-years.

See also: → Perseus; → Pisces; → cluster.