Coma Cluster
noirlab_noirlab2420a August 14th, 2024
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
The Dark Energy Camera captures an image of the dazzling Coma Cluster, named after the hair of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Not only significant in Greek mythology, this collection of galaxies was also fundamental to the discovery of the existence of dark matter. The theory emerged in 1937 when Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed that the Coma Cluster galaxies behaved as if they were under the influence of vast amounts of unobservable ‘dark’ matter. Explore the thousands of cluster and background galaxies with this zoomable image.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2420a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2420a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- ACO 1656, Coma Cluster
- Credits
- CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2024-08-14T13:00:00
- Lightyears
- 320,000,000.0
- Redshift
- 0.023
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2420a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- DECam, DECam, DECam, DECam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- z, i, r, g
- Central Wavelength
- 926, 784, 642, 473
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 195.035658667, 28.0019867296
- Reference Dimension
- 12130.0, 7696.0
- Reference Pixel
- 6065.5, 3847.5
- Scale
- -7.27641864937726e-05, 7.26245516645757e-05
- Rotation
- -0.01066695678395
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noirlab2420a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2420a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-01-03T15:51:23+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
