Closing in on a giant space blob
eso_eso1130b August 17th, 2011
Credit: ESO/A. Fujii/M. Hayes and Digitized Sky Survey 2
This sequence of images closes in on one of the largest known single objects in the Universe, the Lyman-alpha blob LAB-1. Observations with the ESO VLT show for the first time that this giant "blob" must be powered by galaxies embedded within the cloud. The image on the left shows a wide view of the constellation of Aquarius. The two images at the upper right were created from photographs taken through blue and red filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The two images at the lower right were taken using the FORS camera on the VLT.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1130b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1130b
- Subject Category
- D.6.1.2
- Subject Name
- LAB-1
- Credits
- ESO/A. Fujii/M. Hayes and Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Release Date
- 2011-08-17T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1130b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Very Large Telescope, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Very Large Telescope, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Very Large Telescope, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- FORS2, None, FORS1, None, FORS1, None, FORS1, None
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Green, Green, Green, Orange, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B, B, OIII, Pseudogreen (B+R), Pseudogreen (B+V), R, V, I
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 8768.0, 8332.0
- 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
- eso1130b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1130b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-08-11T14:45:47+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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