Chasing 'Hidden' Galaxies (Artist's Impression)
Artist's impression showing a galaxy located between an observer on Earth and a background quasar that acts as a beacon. The light that travels from the quasar is intercepted by the foreground galaxy on its sightline, carrying out the galaxy's signature all the way to the observer. The sketch shows a side-on view of the system. The inset shows a face-on view of it, the same view captured (albeit with less detail) by the images taken with the SINFONI instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (see ESO Press Release eso0740).
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ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso0740b |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 14 September 2007 |
| Related releases: | eso0740 |
| Size: | 3071 x 1998 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Galaxy, Quasar |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral • Local Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar • X - Galaxies • X - Illustrations |
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