Hubble captures a "five-star" rated gravitational lens
esahubble_heic0606b May 23rd, 2006
Credit: European Space Agency, NASA, Keren Sharon (Tel-Aviv University) and Eran Ofek (CalTech)
This full-size Hubble image shows galaxy cluster SDSS J1004+4112 that was discovered as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is one of the more distant clusters known (seven billion light-years, redshift z=0.68), and is seen when the Universe was half its present age. The image is the first-ever picture of a single distant quasar lensed into five images and also shows a rich abundance of banana-like arcs from lends background galaxies and even a supernova. Four of the five quasar images are seen as star-like images surrounding the centre of the cluster. The fifth quasar image is embedded to the right of the core of the central galaxy in the cluster.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0606b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0606b
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.8 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- SDSS J100434.05+4112
- Credits
- European Space Agency, NASA, Keren Sharon (Tel-Aviv University) and Eran Ofek (CalTech)
- Release Date
- 2006-05-23T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0606b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 555, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 151.144111914, 41.2126809514
- Reference Dimension
- 3598.0, 2030.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1799.0, 1015.0
- Scale
- -1.38984039249e-05, 1.38984039249e-05
- Rotation
- -89.980000000000047
- 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
- heic0606b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0606b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-05-16T16:55:09+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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