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Gravitational Lens Helps Hubble and Keck Discover Galaxy Building Block
CreditsNASA, ESA, Richard Ellis (Caltech) and Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France); Acknowledgment: NASA, A. Fruchter and the ERO Team (STScI and ST-ECF)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2001
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2001-32-1115-image
Credits
NASA, ESA, Richard Ellis (Caltech) and Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France);Acknowledgment: NASA, A. Fruchter and the ERO Team (STScI and ST-ECF)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Abell 2218 |
| Object Description | Gravitational Lensed galaxy |
| Constellation | Draco |
| Distance | The lensed galaxy is 4 billion parsecs (13 billion light-years) away. Redshift: z=5.58 |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Principal Astronomers: J.-P. Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France), R. Ellis and M. Santos (Caltech) and K. Kuijken (Kapteyn Institute, The Netherlands) |
| Instrument | Keck I>Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, HST>WFPC2, and Keck II>Echelle Spectrograph and Imager |
| Exposure Dates | April 23, 2001, Exposure Time: 0.6 hours (Keck I), January 11 - 12, 2000, Exposure Time: 3.3 hours (HST), and May 21, 2001, Exposure Time: 1.1 hours |
| Filters | Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph WFPC2: F814 W (I) Echelle Spectrograph and Imager |
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