esahubble_heic1111b June 22nd, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA, ESO and D. Coe (STScI)/J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna)
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 combines data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes Advanced Camera for Surveys, with an image taken with the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope (VLT). Hubble provides the central, most detailed part of the image, while the VLT, which has a wider field of view, provides the outer parts of the image. This object has been nicknamed Pandoras Cluster because of the many different and strange phenomena that were unleashed by a huge collision that occurred over a period of 350 million years. A simultaneous pile-up between at least four separate clusters has produced strange effects that have never been seen together before.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1111b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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