The Einstein Cross
eso_eso0847b December 12th, 2008
Credit: ESO/F. Courbin et al.
Close-up of the Einstein Cross, as observed with the SINFONI instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. SINFONI makes use of the adaptive optics technique and so, allows astronomers to overcome the blurring effect of the atmosphere, thereby providing very sharp images. The central blob is the nucleus of the lensing galaxy, surrounded by the four mirage images of the distant quasar.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0847b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0847b
- Subject Category
- D.5.3.2.1 D.6.2.1
- Subject Name
- Einstein Cross
- Credits
- ESO/F. Courbin et al.
- Release Date
- 2008-12-12T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0847b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- SINFONI
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 187.0, 188.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0847b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0847b.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-11T09:26:37.655543
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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