A Stretched Ring of Galactic Light from Quasar PG1115+080 in Infrared
stsci_1998-37c October 26th, 1998
Credit: Christopher D. Impey (University
In this NICMOS image, the four quasar images and the lens galaxy have been subtracted, revealing a nearly complete ring of infrared light.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-37
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 1998-37c
- Subject Category
- D.5.3.2.1 D.6.2.1
- Subject Name
- PG1115+080
- Credits
- Christopher D. Impey (University
- Release Date
- 1998-10-26T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 8,000,000,000
- Redshift
- 8,000,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-37
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble
- Instrument
- NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Yellow
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 1600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 169.57081455000, 7.76605560000
- Reference Dimension
- 344.00, 435.00
- Reference Pixel
- 79.27467423958, 134.36218077445
- Scale
- -0.00000475882, 0.00000475882
- Rotation
- 0.18179533725
- 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 306.82 290.13 115.00 287.00 329.67 242.43 181.00 150.00 326.70 290.87 172.00 293.00 304.96 260.72 108.00 204.00 324.48 262.70 165.68 209.60 Center Pixel Coordinates: 172.00 169.57036877321 217.50 7.76646491919
- 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-p9837c-f-341x432.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9837c-f-341x432.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/37
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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