X-ray Image of Galaxy Cluster MS 0735

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esahubble_opo0651c November 2nd, 2006

Credit: NASA/CXC, B. McNamara (University of Waterloo and Ohio University)

This image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 was taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in November 2003. Diffuse, hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies in the cluster. The gas emits X-rays, which are seen as blue in this image. Enormous holes or cavities in the gas, each roughly 640,000 light-years in diameter - nearly seven times the diameter of the Milky Way are seen in the image. The cavities were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun, which lurks in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0651c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
MS 0735.6+742
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster
Esahubble_opo0651c_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 7h 41m 42.4s
DEC = 74° 14’ 53.2”
Orientation
North is 0.1° CCW
Field of View
4.5 x 4.6 arcminutes
Constellation
Camelopardalis

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue Chandra (ACIS) X-ray -
Esahubble_opo0651c_1280
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ID
opo0651c
Subject Category
D.5.5.3  
Subject Name
MS 0735.6+742
Credits
NASA/CXC, B. McNamara (University of Waterloo and Ohio University)
Release Date
2006-11-02T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0651c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Redshift distance from: www.raa-journal.org/raa/index.php/raa/article/viewFile/412/pdf
Facility
Chandra
Instrument
ACIS
Color Assignment
Blue
Band
X-ray
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
115.426498333, 74.2481045956
Reference Dimension
5478.0, 5494.0
Reference Pixel
2739.74209621, 2813.2179671
Scale
-1.380304e-05, 1.380304e-05
Rotation
0.09009702234
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
opo0651c
Metadata Date
2006-11-08T16:05:36+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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