esahubble_heic1416c July 24th, 2014
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, HST Frontier Fields Acknowledgement: Mathilde Jauzac (Durham University, UK and Astrophysics & Cosmology Research Unit, South Africa) and Jean-Paul Kneib (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
This image shows the galaxy MCS J0416.12403, one of six clusters targeted by the Hubble Frontier Fields programme. The varying intensity of blue hazein this image is a mass map created by using new Hubble observations combined with the magnifying power of a process known as gravitational lensing. Strong lensing gives a much more precise indication of the mass at the clusters core whilst weak lensing provides valuable information about the mass surrounding the cluster core.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1416c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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