The Sunburst Arc
esahubble_heic1920a November 7th, 2019
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Rivera-Thorsen et al.
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a massive galaxy cluster, about 4.6 billion light years away. Along its borders four bright arcs are visible; these are copies of the same distant galaxy, nicknamed the Sunburst Arc. The Sunburst Arc galaxy is almost 11 billion light-years away and the light from it is being lensed into multiple images by gravitational lensing. The Sunburst Arc is among the brightest lensed galaxies known and its image is visible at least 12 times within the four arcs. Three arcs are visible in the top right of the image, the fourth arc in the lower left. The last one is partially obscured by a bright foreground star, which is located in the Milky Way.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1920a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1920a
- Subject Category
- D.6.2.1
- Subject Name
- PSZ1 G311.65-18.48
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, NASA, Rivera-Thorsen et al.
- Release Date
- 2019-11-07T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1920a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Cyan, Blue, Yellow
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Ultraviolet, Optical
- Bandpass
- H, V, UV, I
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 606, 275, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 237.529182083, -78.1919906294
- Reference Dimension
- 5290.0, 4722.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2645.0, 2361.0
- Scale
- -8.32854818962e-06, 8.32854818962e-06
- Rotation
- 4.9600000000000355
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1920a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1920a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-02-06T18:12:41+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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