Pandora’s Cluster (combined Hubble and VLT view)
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 combines data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, with an image taken with the ESO VLT. Hubble provides the central, most detailed part of the image, while the VLT offers a wider field of view.
This object has been nicknamed Pandora’s 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.
Crédit:NASA, ESA, ESO and D. Coe (STScI)/J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna)
À propos de l'image
Identification: | eso1120c |
Type: | Observation |
Date de publication: | 22 juin 2011 15:00 |
Communiqués de presse en rapport: | eso1120 |
Taille: | 8068 x 8067 px |
À propos de l'objet
Nom: | Abell 2744 |
Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
Distance: | z=0.308 (redshift) |
Constellation: | Sculptor |
Catégorie: | Galaxies |
Formats des images
Fonds d'écran
Coordinates
Position (RA): | 0 14 20.51 |
Position (Dec): | -30° 23' 57.19" |
Field of view: | 6.72 x 6.72 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 0.0° left of vertical |
Couleurs & filtres
Domaine | Longueur d'onde | Télescope |
---|---|---|
Visible B | 435 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
Visible V | Very Large Telescope FORS1 | |
Visible V | 606 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
Visible R | Very Large Telescope FORS1 | |
Visible I | 814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
Infrarouge I | Very Large Telescope FORS1 |