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Cúmulo de galaxias Abell 520 (CFHT y HST)
The natural-color image of the galaxies was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.Abell 520 formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters and resides 2.4 billion light-years away. CreditsNASA, ESA, CFHT, and M.J. J...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2012
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2012-10-2990-image
The natural-color image of the galaxies was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.
Abell 520 formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters and resides 2.4 billion light-years away.
Credits
NASA, ESA, CFHT, and M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis)Detalles de la imagen
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Abell 520 |
| Object Description | Merging Galaxy Cluster |
| R.A. Position | 04h 54m 18.98s |
| Dec. Position | 02° 56' 48.8" |
| Constellation | Orion |
| Distance | 2.4 billion light-years (740 million parsecs) |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from proposal : J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, Seattle), A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University), H. Hoekstra (Leiden Observatory), and A. Babul (University of Victoria, BC). The science paper is led by M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis). |
| Instrument | HST>WFPC2 and CFHT |
| Exposure Dates | August 19-22, 2008, Exposure Time: 11 hours |
| Filters | CFHT (B), and HST/WFPC2 F814W (I) |
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