Quaoar Close-Up

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esahubble_opo0217e October 7th, 2002

Credit: NASA/ESA and M. Brown (Caltech)

This photograph, taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, is a close-up view of the icy world. Only Hubble's sharp vision can resolve the disk of this distant world, leading to the first-ever direct measurement of the true size of a Kuiper belt object. Quaoar's diameter is about 800 miles (1300 kilometers). It is the farthest object in the solar system ever to be resolved by a telescope. The Hubble photo does not show details of Quaoar's icy surface because the object is too far away. Quaoar is about 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, more than 1 billion miles farther than Pluto. The photograph was made by assembling 16 pictures of the object. Observations were made July 5, 2002 and Aug. 1, 2002.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0217e/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
2002 LM60 Quaoar
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Dwarf planet

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Hubble (ACS) Ultraviolet (U) 330.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Esahubble_opo0217e_1280
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ID
opo0217e
Subject Category
A.2.1  
Subject Name
2002 LM60, Quaoar
Credits
NASA/ESA and M. Brown (Caltech)
Release Date
2002-10-07T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0217e/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Ultraviolet
Bandpass
U
Central Wavelength
330
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
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
opo0217e
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:20:52+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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