Arc in infrared light (Hubble)
esahubble_heic0805f February 12th, 2008
Credit: NASA; ESA; L. Bradley (Johns Hopkins University); R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz); H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University); and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
The distant galaxy, dubbed A1689-zD1, appears as a greyish-white smudge in the close-up view taken with Hubble's NICMOS. The galaxy is brimming with star birth. Hubble and Spitzer worked together to show that it is one of the youngest and likely the most distant galaxies ever discovered. Astronomers estimate that the galaxy is 13 billion light-years away. Abell 1689 is 2.2 billion light-years away.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0805f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- heic0805f
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.8 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- A1689-zD1, Abell 1689
- Credits
- NASA; ESA; L. Bradley (Johns Hopkins University); R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz); H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University); and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Release Date
- 2008-02-12T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0805f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale, Grayscale
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H, J
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 1100
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 197.874732481, -1.32185408321
- Reference Dimension
- 726.0, 726.0
- Reference Pixel
- 363.0, 363.0
- Scale
- -4.6173267049e-06, 4.6173267049e-06
- Rotation
- -113.9799999999999
- 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
- heic0805f
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0805f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:41:39.301697
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
