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Hubble Frontier Field Abell 2744
This long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is the deepest ever made of any cluster of galaxies. It shows some of the faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in space. Abell 2744, located in the constellation Sculptor, appears in the...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2014
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2014-01-3277-image
This long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is the deepest ever made of any cluster of galaxies. It shows some of the faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in space. Abell 2744, located in the constellation Sculptor, appears in the foreground of this image. It contains several hundred galaxies as they looked 3.5 billion years ago. The immense gravity in Abell 2744 acts as a gravitational lens to warp space and brighten and magnify images of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies. The more distant galaxies appear as they did longer than 12 billion years ago, not long after the big bang. This image is part of an unprecedented long-distance view of the universe from an ambitious collaborative project among the NASA Great Observatories called The Frontier Fields. Over the next several years select patches of the sky will be photographed for the purpose of better understanding galaxy evolution. This visible-light and near-infrared composite image was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3.
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NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster |
| Object Description | Galaxy Cluster and Gravitational Lens |
| R.A. Position | 00h 14m 19.5s |
| Dec. Position | -30° 23' 19.18" |
| Constellation | Sculptor |
| Distance | Redshift: z=0.308 |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Data were obtained as part of the HST proposals : R. Dupke (Eureka Scientific Inc.) et al., : S. Rodney (JHU) et al., and : J. Lotz (STScI) et al. |
| Instrument | HST>ACS/WFC and HST>WFC3/IR |
| Exposure Dates | October 2009; August - November 2013 Exposure Time: 67 hours |
| Filters | ACS/WFC: F435W (B), F606W (V), F814W (I) WFC3/IR: F105W (Y), F125W (J), F140W (JH), F160W (H) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the ACS and WFC3 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F435W (B) + F606W (V) Green: F814W (I) + F105W (Y) Red: F125W (J) + F140W (JH) + F160W (H) |
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