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Frontier Fields Target Galaxy Clusters
These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part of an ambitious new observing program called The Frontier Fields. NASA's Great Observatories are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2013
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2013-44-3251-image
These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part of an ambitious new observing program called The Frontier Fields. NASA's Great Observatories are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from natural "zoom lenses" found in space, they should be able to uncover galaxies that are as much as 100 times fainter than what the Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra space telescopes can typically see. The gravitational fields of the clusters brighten and magnify far-more-distant background galaxies that are so faint they would otherwise be unobservable. The foreground clusters range in distance from 3 billion to 5 billion light-years from Earth.
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NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and M. Mountain (STScI)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster, MACS J0416.1-2403, MACS J0717.5+3745, MACS J1149.5+2223 |
| Object Description | Galaxy Clusters and Gravitational Lens |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Abell 2744 (top left) Data were obtained as part of the HST proposal : R. Dupke (Eureka Scientific Inc.) et al. MACS J0416.1-2403 (top right) Data were obtained as part of the HST proposal : M. Postman (STScI) and the CLASH Team MACS J0717.5+3745 (bottom left) Data were obtained as part of HST proposal : H. Ebeling (University of Hawaii) et al. MACS J1149.5+2223 (bottom right) |
| Instrument | HST>ACS/WFC and HST>WFC3/IR |
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