A Close-Up of the Gravitationally-Lensed Image
stsci_1997-25c July 30th, 1997
Credit: Marijn Franx (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) amd NASA
A close-up of the gravitationally-lensed image shows why astronomers are excited about this unique opportunity to study the distant galaxy's structure. The stretched-out image reveals tiny knots of vigorous starbirth activity. This provides a first detailed look at the early construction phase of a galaxy undergoing formation.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-25
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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Image Details
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- ID
- 1997-25c
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.8
- Subject Name
- CL1358+62
- Credits
- Marijn Franx (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) amd NASA
- Release Date
- 1997-07-30T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 13,000,000,000
- Redshift
- 13,000,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-25
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Lightyears galaxy is from Earth
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 210.00849999861, 62.51782307222
- Reference Dimension
- 640.00, 583.00
- Reference Pixel
- -487.04544742050, 342.97677032759
- Scale
- -0.00002779094, 0.00002779094
- Rotation
- -0.48121450446
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 1930.57 1181.27 132.00 101.00 2090.71 1229.71 294.00 150.00 1986.91 1285.07 185.00 204.00 1992.84 1377.99 194.00 298.00 2079.83 1358.22 281.48 278.29 Center Pixel Coordinates: 320.00 209.96075135204 291.50 62.51651624432
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9725c-f-102x81.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9725c-f-102x81.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1997/25
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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