The Perseus Cluster (DSS2 excerpt, ground-based image)
esahubble_heic0817c August 20th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
Located around 235 million light-years away from Earth, The Perseus Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest to us but is difficult to see in visible-light wavelengths. The cluster contains 190 galaxies including NGC 1275 which sits near the centre of this image, and is part of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster, which contains over 1000 galaxies. This image's field of view is 2.75 x 2.81 degrees.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0817c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0817c
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.2.2 C.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- NGC 1275, Perseus Cluster
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2008-08-20T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0817c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- DSS, DSS
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 49.9929636463, 41.54285606
- Reference Dimension
- 9887.0, 10127.0
- Reference Pixel
- 4943.5, 5063.5
- Scale
- -0.000279700717184, 0.000279700717184
- Rotation
- 1.5399999999999996
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0817c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0817c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-08-19T14:00:40+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
