One of three magnified images of a distant galaxy (3)

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esahubble_heic1423e October 16th, 2014

Credit: NASA, ESA Acknowledgement: A. Zitrin (California Institute of Technology, USA)

This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows one of three images of the same very distant galaxy whose light has taken 13 billion years to reach us. The galaxy has been magnified and multiply imaged by the lensing effect of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744. By measuring the angular separations between the three magnified images of the galaxy a team of astronomers were able to further constrain their measurement of the galaxy’s distance from Earth. Much like using your camera to focus on an object, and then reading its distance from you on the lens focus ring. This makes this possibly the most reliable distance measurement yet of an object that existed in the Universe’s formative years.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1423e/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Abell 2744
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy
Esahubble_heic1423e_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 0h 14m 18.6s
DEC = -30° 24’ 31.4”
Orientation
North is 9.1° CW
Field of View
0.1 x 0.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Sculptor

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue Hubble (ACS) Optical (B) 814.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFC3) Infrared (Y) 1.1 µm
Red Hubble (WFC3) Infrared (W) 1.6 µm
Spectrum_base
Blue
Green
Red
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ID
heic1423e
Subject Category
D.5  
Subject Name
Abell 2744
Credits
NASA, ESA Acknowledgement: A. Zitrin (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Release Date
2014-10-16T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://esahubble.org/images/heic1423e/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS, WFC3, WFC3
Color Assignment
Blue, Green, Red
Band
Optical, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
B, Y, W
Central Wavelength
814, 1050, 1600
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
3.57753250074, -30.4087094473
Reference Dimension
900.0, 900.0
Reference Pixel
450.0, 450.0
Scale
-9.84968757815e-07, 9.84968757815e-07
Rotation
-9.0600000000000147
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
https://esahubble.org
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
City
Baltimore
State/Province
MD
Postal Code
21218
Country
United States
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
heic1423e
Metadata Date
2023-11-25T01:32:09.421255
Metadata Version
1.1
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