Hubble WFC3 View of GRB 110328A's Host Galaxy

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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