Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
stsci_2008-08b February 12th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, L. Bradley (JHU), R. Bouwens (UCSC), H. Ford (JHU), and G. Illingworth (UCSC)
Abell 1689, a massive cluster of yellowish galaxies, is seemingly caught in a spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies in this 2002 Hubble image taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The gravity of the cluster's trillion stars acts as a cosmic "zoom lens," bending and magnifying the light of the galaxies located far behind it, a technique called gravitational lensing. The faraway galaxies appear in the Hubble image as arc-shaped objects around the cluster. The distance to the lensing cluster is 2.2 billion light-years (675 megaparsecs). The distance to the lensed galaxy is about 12.8 billion light-years. Abell 1689 is located in the constellation Virgo.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-08
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2008-08b
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.8 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 1689
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, L. Bradley (JHU), R. Bouwens (UCSC), H. Ford (JHU), and G. Illingworth (UCSC)
- Release Date
- 2008-02-12T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 2,200,000,000
- Redshift
- 2,200,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-08
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- The distance to the lensing cluster is 2.2 billion light-years (675 megaparsecs). The distance to the lensed galaxy is about 12.8 billion light-years.
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- g, r, z
- Central Wavelength
- 475, 625, 850
- Start Time
- 2002-06-15T00:00:00, 2002-06-14T00:00:00, 2002-06-12T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- E
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 197.8732480, -1.3377720
- Reference Dimension
- 3813.0, 3367.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1907.5, 1684.5
- Scale
- -1.38227e-05, 1.3822713e-05
- Rotation
- -115.06
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- 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-p0808b-f-3813x3367.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p0808b-f-3813x3367.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/08
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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