Wide-field of the region around the quasar J0529-4351
eso_eso2402b February 19th, 2024
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Dark Energy Survey
This image shows the region of the sky in which the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351 is situated. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the Universe to date. This picture was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2, while the inset shows the location of the quasar in an image from the Dark Energy Survey.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2402b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso2402b
- Subject Category
- D.5.3.2.1
- Subject Name
- J0529-4351
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Dark Energy Survey
- Release Date
- 2024-02-19T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2402b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 82.315833333, -43.8645
- Reference Dimension
- 5638.0, 4000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2819.0, 2000.0
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2402b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2402b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-06T15:45:58+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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