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Compass and Scale Image of GRB 110328A's Host Galaxy
CreditsIllustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI); Science: NASA, ESA, and A. Fruchter (STScI)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2011
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2011-10-2831-image
Credits
Illustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI);Science: NASA, ESA, and A. Fruchter (STScI)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | GRB 110328A |
| Object Description | High-Energy Transient Event |
| R.A. Position | 16h 44m 49s.3 |
| Dec. Position | +57° 34' 51" |
| Constellation | Draco |
| Distance | About 3.8 billion light-years or 920 megaparsecs (z=0.35) |
| Dimensions | The image is 23.6 arcseconds wide. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from proposal : A. Fruchter (STScI), J. Bloom and S. Cenko (University of California, Berkeley), J. Graham (Johns Hopkins University), A. Levan (University of Warwick, UK), K. Misra (STScI), D. Perley (California Institute of Technology), and N. Tanvir and K. Wiersema (University of Leicester, UK). |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | April 4, 2011, Exposure Time: 21 minutes |
| Filters | F606W (wide V) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3/UVIS instrument on HST. A single filter (F606W) was used to sample a broad wavelength range. Color has been applied to represent brightness, mapping data values into a range of hues from black through red, orange and yellow, to white. |
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