The Coma Galaxy Cluster as seen by Hubble

Esahubble_heic0813a_1024

esahubble_heic0813a June 10th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: D. Carter (Liverpool John Moores University) and the Coma HST ACS Treasury Team.

Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys has viewed a large portion of the Coma Cluster, stretching across several million light-years across. The entire spherical cluster is more than 20 million light-years in diameter and contains thousands of galaxies. Most of the galaxies that inhabit the central portion of the Coma Cluster are elliptical galaxies. These featureless "fuzz-balls" are a pale golden brown in colour and contain populations of old stars. Both dwarf and giant ellipticals are found in abundance in the Coma Cluster.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0813a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Abell 1656
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster
Esahubble_heic0813a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 13h 0m 28.4s
DEC = 28° 2’ 39.9”
Orientation
North is 12.0° CW
Field of View
9.0 x 6.4 arcminutes
Constellation
Coma Berenices

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Orange Hubble (ACS) Infrared (I) 814.0 nm
Cyan Hubble (ACS) Optical (B) 475.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Orange
Cyan
Esahubble_heic0813a_1280
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ID
heic0813a
Subject Category
C.5.5.3  
Subject Name
Abell 1656
Credits
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: D. Carter (Liverpool John Moores University) and the Coma HST ACS Treasury Team.
Release Date
2008-06-10T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0813a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS, ACS
Color Assignment
Orange, Cyan
Band
Infrared, Optical
Bandpass
I, B
Central Wavelength
814, 475
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
195.118535556, 28.0444153007
Reference Dimension
10816.0, 7679.0
Reference Pixel
5408.0, 3839.5
Scale
-1.38905299158e-05, 1.38905299158e-05
Rotation
-12.000000000000069
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.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
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
heic0813a
Metadata Date
2008-06-06T18:10:55+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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