Abell 1689 Hubble ACS/WFC
stsci_2010-26b August 19th, 2010
Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Jullo (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), P. Natarajan (Yale University), and J.-P. Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, France); Acknowledgment: H. Ford and N. Benetiz (Johns Hopkins University), and T. Broadhurst (Tel Aviv University)
A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies, seemingly caught in a red and blue spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies, makes for a spellbinding picture NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. To make this unprecedented image of the cosmos, Hubble peered straight through the center of one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, called Abell 1689. The gravity of the cluster's trillion stars - plus dark matter - acts as a 2-million-light-year-wide "lens" in space. This "gravitational lens" bends and magnifies the light of the galaxies located far behind it. Some of the faintest objects in the picture are probably over 13 billion light-years away.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2010/news-2010-26
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2010-26b
- Subject Category
- D.6.2.3 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 1689
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, E. Jullo (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), P. Natarajan (Yale University), and J.-P. Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, France); Acknowledgment: H. Ford and N. Benetiz (Johns Hopkins University), and T. Broadhurst (Tel Aviv University)
- Release Date
- 2010-08-19T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 2,200,000,000
- Redshift
- 2,200,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2010/news-2010-26
- 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, i, z
- Central Wavelength
- 475, 775, 850
- Start Time
- 2002-06-15T00:00:00, 2002-06-13T00:00:00, 2002-06-12T00:00:00
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- J
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 197.8753328, -1.3386110
- Reference Dimension
- 3853.0, 4000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1927.5, 2001.0
- Scale
- -1.38844e-05, 1.3884407e-05
- Rotation
- -115.15
- 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-p1026b-f-3853x4000.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1026b-f-3853x4000.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/26
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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