Hubble image of the region around SDP.81

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eso_eso1522d June 8th, 2015

Credit: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign has produced a spectacularly detailed image of a distant galaxy being gravitationally lensed, revealing star-forming regions — something that has never seen before at this level of detail in a galaxy so remote. The new observations are far more detailed than any previously made of such a distant galaxy, including those made using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and reveal clumps of star formation in the galaxy equivalent to giant versions of the Orion Nebula. The image shows the foreground lensing galaxy (observed with Hubble), and the gravitationally lensed galaxy SDP.81, which forms an almost perfect Einstein Ring, is hardly visible.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1522d/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Einstein Ring • SDP 81
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology > Phenomenon > Lensing
Galaxy > Type > Gravitationally Lensed
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Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 9h 3m 11.7s
DEC = 0° 39’ 4.6”
Orientation
North is 38.2° CCW
Field of View
1.4 x 1.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Hydra

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFC3) Infrared (H Short) 1.6 µm
Blue Hubble (WFC3) Infrared (Wide J) 1.1 µm
Spectrum_base
Red
Blue
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ID
eso1522d
Subject Category
D.6.2.1   D.5.1.8  
Subject Name
Einstein Ring, SDP 81
Credits
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
Release Date
2015-06-08T20:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1522d/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
from NED
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFC3, WFC3
Color Assignment
Red, Blue
Band
Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
H Short, Wide J
Central Wavelength
1600, 1100
Start Time
2011-04-04T09:26:28, 2011-04-04T09:10:28
Integration Time
4417.62, 711.74
Dataset ID
hst_12194_01_wfc3_ir_f160w, hst_12194_01_wfc3_ir_f110w
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
135.79893626, 0.651270051279
Reference Dimension
913.0, 742.0
Reference Pixel
456.5, 371.0
Scale
-2.49913447341e-05, 2.49913447341e-05
Rotation
38.220000000000049
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
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
eso1522d
Resource URL
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1522d.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2024-02-22T14:21:14.482843
Metadata Version
1.1
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