Gravitational Lens System SDSSJ0946+1006 (Double Einstein Ring)
stsci_2008-04b January 10th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team
This is an image of gravitational lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 as photographed by Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The gravitational field of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two galaxies exactly behind it. The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances. The foreground galaxy is 3 billion light-years away, the inner ring and outer ring are comprised of multiple images of two galaxies at a distance of 6 and approximately 11 billion light-years. The odds of seeing such a special alignment are estimated to be 1 in 10,000.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-04
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2008-04b
- Subject Category
- C.6.2.1
- Subject Name
- SDSSJ0946+1006
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team
- Release Date
- 2008-01-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-04
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS/WFC
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- I
- Central Wavelength
- 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 146.75068116352, 10.11104000757
- Reference Dimension
- 1215.00, 1693.00
- Reference Pixel
- 457.74695794248, -801.03750691863
- Scale
- -0.00000833229, 0.00000833229
- Rotation
- 71.36800643807
- 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
- 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-p0804b-f-1215x1693.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0804b-f-1215x1693.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/04
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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