Galaxy Cluster Abell 1835
esahubble_heic0005b September 6th, 2000
Credit: ESA & Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées)
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in red light. The two hour exposure spans 2.5 arcminutes. The image shows an overview of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1835 (right) which is acting as a gravitational telescope enhancing the light from background galaxies. The galaxy cluster is at a distance of 3.5 billion light years and numerous gravitational arcs can be seen in the image. In the centre of the cluster a massive giant elliptical galaxy is surrounded by several smaller ellipticals. The box indicates the galaxy SMM J14011+0252, also called J1/J2, which was first observed with the SCUBA (Sub-millimetre Common User Bolometer Array) instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii. For further information, please click the news release link below.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0005b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0005b
- Subject Category
- D.5.3.3 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 1835, J1/J2, SMM J14011+0252
- Credits
- ESA & Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées)
- Release Date
- 2000-09-06T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0005b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Redshift distance from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- R
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- 7200
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 210.255923093, 2.87172366436
- Reference Dimension
- 2970.0, 3008.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1485.0, 1504.0
- Scale
- -1.381423007e-05, 1.381423007e-05
- Rotation
- -94.3199999999999
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0005b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0005b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:03:02+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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