The Spiderweb Galaxy and its surroundings (full ACS view)
eso_eso1431c October 15th, 2014
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Miley and R. Overzier (Leiden Observatory), and the ACS Science Team Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the full ACS overview of the region around the Spiderweb Galaxy (just to the right of the centre). The galaxy is sitting at the centre of an emergent galaxy cluster, surrounded by hundreds of other galaxies from the cluster.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1431c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1431c
- Subject Category
- E.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Spiderweb Galaxy
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, G. Miley and R. Overzier (Leiden Observatory), and the ACS Science Team Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).
- Release Date
- 2014-10-15T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1431c/
- 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
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, Pseudogreen (B+I), B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 175.197351796, -26.489102842
- Reference Dimension
- 6657.0, 3913.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3328.0, 1956.0
- Scale
- -1.39095998578e-05, 1.39095998578e-05
- Rotation
- -174.97999999999971
- 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
- eso1431c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1431c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-10-06T17:32:48+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
