The Spiderweb protocluster
This image shows the protocluster around the Spiderweb galaxy (formally known as MRC 1138-262). The light that we see in the image shows galaxies at a time when the Universe was only 3 billion years old. Most of the mass in the protocluster does not reside in the galaxies, but in the gas known as the intracluster medium. Because of the mass in the gas, the protocluster is in the process of becoming a massive cluster held together by its own gravity.
Credit:ESO/H. Ford
About the Image
Id: | eso2304b |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 29 March 2023, 17:00 |
Related releases: | eso2304 |
Size: | 1500 x 1500 px |
About the Object
Name: | Spiderweb Galaxy |
Type: | Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Large-Scale Structure |
Constellation: | Hydra |
Category: | Galaxy Clusters |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 11 40 48.50 |
Position (Dec): | -26° 29' 8.62" |
Field of view: | 1.00 x 1.00 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is -0.0° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical G | 475 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
Optical I | 814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
Optical G | 475 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
Optical I | 814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |