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Compass Image for Abell 370 Parallel Field with Asteroids
Credits Image NASA, ESA, Ben Sunnquist (STScI), Jennifer Mack (STScI)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2017
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2017-33-4081-image
Credits
Image
NASA, ESA, Ben Sunnquist (STScI), Jennifer Mack (STScI)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Abell 370 Parallel Field |
| Object Description | Asteroids in Foreground of Hubble Frontier Fields Image |
| R.A. Position | 02:40:18.823 |
| Dec. Position | -01:36:12.269 |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Distance | 4 billion light-years (to Abell 370) |
| Dimensions | Image is 1 arcmin across (about 1.16 million light-years at distance of Abell 370) |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Abell 370 is part of the Frontier Fields Program. These data are from the HST proposals (PI: E. Hu, University of Hawaii), (PI: K. Noll, GSFC), (PI: J.-P. Kneib, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), (PI: T. Treu, UCLA), (PI: S. Rodney, JHU), (PI: J. Lotz, STScI), and (R. Kirshner, Harvard University). For more information, see . |
| Instrument | HST ACS/WFC; WFC3/IR |
| Exposure Dates | September 2009 - February 2015 |
| Filters | ACS/WFC: F435W, F606W, and F814W; WFC3/IR: F105W, F125W, F140W, and F160W |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image is a composite of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using two different cameras and filters isolating the light of specific elements or of specific broad wavelength ranges. The color arises by assigning different hues (colors), to each monochromatic image. In this case, the colors are: blue WFC3/UVIS F435W + F606W, green WFC3/UVIS F814W + WFC3/IR F015W, orange/red WFC3/IR F125W + F140W + F160W. |
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