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.
Credit:NASA, ESA, ESO and D. Coe (STScI)/J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna)
About the Image
| Id: | eso1120c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 22 June 2011, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1120 |
| Size: | 8068 x 8067 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Abell 2744 |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
| Distance: | z=0.308 (redshift) |
| Constellation: | Sculptor |
| Category: | Galaxies |
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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 |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical B | 435 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical V | Very Large Telescope FORS1 | |
| Optical V | 606 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical R | Very Large Telescope FORS1 | |
| Optical I | 814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared I | Very Large Telescope FORS1 |