Galaxy cluster Abell 520 (CFHT and HST)

esahubble_opo1210d March 23rd, 2012

Credit: NASA, ESA, CFHT, and M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis)

The natural-colour image of the galaxies was taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii. Abell 520 formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters and resides 2.4 billion light-years away.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1210d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Abell 520
Subject - Distant Universe: Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 4h 54m 10.5s; DEC = 2° 54’ 53.4”
Orientation: North is 57.3° CCW
Field of View: 8.5 x 5.4 arcminutes
Constellation: Orion

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
CFHT (Other)	Optical (None)	-
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (None)	-
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (None)	-

ID: opo1210d
Subject Category: D.5.5.3
Subject Name: Abell 520
Credits: NASA, ESA, CFHT, and M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis)

Release Date: 2012-03-23T16:31:14
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1210d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: Other, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment: Luminosity, Cyan, Yellow

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: None, None, None
Central Wavelength

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 73.5435494284, 2.91483260254
Reference Dimension: 2734.0, 1758.0

Reference Pixel: 1367.0, 879.0
Scale: -5.1609657969e-05, 5.1609657969e-05
Rotation: 57.299999999999912
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: None

Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo1210d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo1210d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:41:51.896622
Metadata Version: 1.1

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