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Visible-Light Image of Galaxy Cluster MS 0735
This image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in February 2006. The Advanced Camera for Surveys image shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity. Diffuse, hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the spac...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2006
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2006-51-2013-image
This image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in February 2006. The Advanced Camera for Surveys image shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity. Diffuse, hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies. A supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurks in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy.
Credits
NASA, ESA, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo and Ohio University)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | MS 0735.6+7421, Galaxy Cluster MS 0735 |
| Object Description | Galaxy Cluster |
| R.A. Position | 07h 41m 50.2s |
| Dec. Position | 74° 14' 51.0" |
| Constellation | Camelopardalis |
| Distance | About 2.6 billion light years |
| Dimensions | 4 arcminutes (3 million light-years or 900 kiloparsecs) wide |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | This image was created from HST data from the following proposal : B. McNamara (Ohio University), M. Wise (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and P. Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory). |
| Instrument | HST>ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Dates | February 1, 2006 |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | Yellow-green (HST): visible |
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