Pandora’s Cluster — Hubble view of Abell 2744
eso_eso1120d June 22nd, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Coe (STScI)/J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna)
This image from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the central regions of the remarkable merging galaxy cluster Abell 2744. This object has been nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster because of the many different and strange phenomena that were unleashed by a huge collision that occurred over a period of 350 million years. A simultaneous pile-up between at least four separate clusters has produced strange effects that have never been seen together before.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1120d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1120d
- Subject Category
- D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 2744, Pandora’s Cluster
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and D. Coe (STScI)/J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna)
- Release Date
- 2011-06-22T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1120d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 3.58371, -30.388472
- Reference Dimension
- 3662.0, 5253.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1892.341145, 2866.82520667
- Scale
- -1.388604e-05, 1.388604e-05
- Rotation
- -24.88404435922
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- 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
- eso1120d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1120d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-05-09T14:53:09+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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