Wide-field view of the sky around a giant space blob
This visible-light wide-field image of the region around the giant Lyman-alpha blob LAB1 was created from photographs taken through blue and red filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The blob itself lies at the centre of the image but, despite being huge and very luminous, it is so distant that it is too faint to be seen clearly on this picture. The field of view is approximately 2.9 degrees across.
Credit:ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
About the Image
| Id: | eso1130c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 17 August 2011, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1632, eso1130 |
| Size: | 10669 x 10688 px |
About the Object
| Name: | LAB-1 |
| Type: | Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Large-Scale Structure |
| Distance: | z=3.1 (redshift) |
| Constellation: | Aquarius |
| Category: | Cosmology |
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 22 17 25.64 |
| Position (Dec): | 0° 12' 52.21" |
| Field of view: | 179.37 x 179.69 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 0.1° left of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
|---|---|
| Optical B | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
| Optical Pseudogreen (B+R) | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
| Optical R | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
| Infrared I | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |