BUFFALOs view on Abell 370
esahubble_heic1816a September 13th, 2018
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Koekemoer, M. Jauzac, C. Steinhardt, and the BUFFALO team
The galaxy cluster Abell 370 was the first target of the BUFFALO survey, which aims to search for some of the first galaxies in the Universe. This remarkable cluster in the constellation of Cetus is located approximately four billion light-years away. Its mass, consisting of both hundreds of galaxies and dark matter, bends and distorts the light coming from even more distant objects behind it. This effect is known as strong gravitational lensing. The most stunning demonstration of gravitational lensing can be seen just below the centre of the image. Nicknamed the Dragon, this extended feature is made up of a multitude of duplicated images of a spiral galaxy in the background of Abell 370 all lying five billion light-years away.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1816a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1816a
- Subject Category
- D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 370
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, A. Koekemoer, M. Jauzac, C. Steinhardt, and the BUFFALO team
- Release Date
- 2018-09-13T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1816a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Luminosity, Luminosity, Luminosity, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- I, V, B, Z, J, H
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 435, 1050, 1250, 1600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 39.9701698768, -1.57727281228
- Reference Dimension
- 7819.0, 8897.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3909.0, 4448.0
- Scale
- -8.337619856e-06, 8.337619856e-06
- Rotation
- -27.719999999999963
- 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
- heic1816a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1816a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-09-12T12:44:49+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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