Abell 1703

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esahubble_heic0814b July 24th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA, and Johan Richard (Caltech, USA)Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin & James Long (ESA/Hubble)

Located in the northern celestial hemisphere, Abell 1703 is composed of over one hundred different galaxies that act as a powerful cosmic telescope, or gravitational lens. The gravitational lens produced by the massive galaxy cluster in the foreground (the yellow mostly elliptical galaxies scattered across the image) bends the light rays in a way that can stretch the images and so amplify the brightness of the light rays from more distant galaxies. In the process it distorts their shapes and produces multiple banana-shaped images of the original galaxies. The result is the stunning image seen here - a view deeper into the Universe than possible with current technology alone. Abell 1703 is located at 3 billion light-years from the Earth (redshift 0.26).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0814b/

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 1703
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 13h 15m 3.7s
DEC = 51° 49’ 25.9”
Orientation
North is 130.2° CW
Field of View
3.2 x 3.3 arcminutes
Constellation
Canes Venatici

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (None) Infrared (I) -
Red Hubble (None) Optical (R) -
Green Hubble (None) Optical -
Blue Hubble (None) Optical (B) -
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ID
heic0814b
Subject Category
D.5.5.3  
Subject Name
Abell 1703
Credits
NASA, ESA, and Johan Richard (Caltech, USA)Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin & James Long (ESA/Hubble)
Release Date
2008-07-24T17:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0814b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
None, None, None, None
Color Assignment
Red, Red, Green, Blue
Band
Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
I, R, -, B
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
198.765275743, 51.8238649554
Reference Dimension
4784.0, 4961.0
Reference Pixel
2392.0, 2480.5
Scale
-1.11118430316e-05, 1.11118430316e-05
Rotation
-130.18000000000038
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
heic0814b
Metadata Date
2008-07-24T14:20:32+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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