The area around SpARCS1049+56 (ground-based image)

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esahubble_heic1519c September 10th, 2015

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2

This image shows the region of sky around the the distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049+56. It took the light of the cluster 9.8 billion light-years to reach us. The cluster houses at least 27 galaxies, probably more, and has a combined mass equal to 400 trillion Suns.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1519c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
SpARCS1049+56
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 10h 49m 26.9s
DEC = 56° 40’ 44.9”
Orientation
North is 2.8° CCW
Field of View
1.5 x 1.5 degrees
Constellation
Ursa Major
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ID
heic1519c
Subject Category
D.5.5.3  
Subject Name
SpARCS1049+56
Credits
NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Release Date
2015-09-10T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1519c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Instrument
Color Assignment
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
162.361890607, 56.6791331949
Reference Dimension
5329.0, 5319.0
Reference Pixel
2664.5, 2659.5
Scale
-0.000279809465297, 0.000279809465297
Rotation
2.7800000000000016
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
heic1519c
Metadata Date
2015-09-02T10:53:23+05:30
Metadata Version
1.1
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