IRC 0218 lensing feature without foreground cluster

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a region containing the most distant cosmic lens yet found, a massive elliptical galaxy whose powerful gravity is magnifying the light from a faraway galaxy behind it.

In this image astronomers have subtracted the image of the giant red elliptical to show a more distant spiral galaxy. The glow of young stars makes the galaxy appear blue. The white area at upper right is probably a region of star formation.

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Credit:

NASAESA, K.-V. Tran (Texas A&M University), and K. Wong (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics)

About the Image

NASA press release
Id:opo1433d
Type:Observation
Release date:4 August 2014, 09:13
Size:544 x 544 px

About the Object

Name:IRC 0218
Type:Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Elliptical
Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed
Early Universe : Cosmology : Phenomenon : Lensing
Distance:10 billion light years
Constellation:Cetus
Category:Galaxies

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Coordinates

Position (RA):2 18 21.54
Position (Dec):-5° 10' 19.85"
Field of view:0.03 x 0.03 arcminutes
Orientation:North is 2.6° right of vertical


Colours & filters

BandWavelengthTelescope
Optical
g
475 nm Hubble Space Telescope
ACS
Optical
I
814 nm Hubble Space Telescope
ACS
Infrared
Z
1.05 μm Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3
Infrared
J
1.25 μm Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3
Infrared
H
1.6 μm Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3
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