Heavyweight Champion of the Distant Universe
noirlab_noaoann16001a January 8th, 2016
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Missouri/M.Brodwin et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: JPL/CalTech
Weighing in at 500 trillion times the mass of the Sun, the young galaxy cluster IDCS 1426, located 10 billion light years from Earth, is the most massive distant cluster known. Recently weighed using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, it was first identified with data from the NOAO Deep Wide-field Survey and data taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann16001a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noaoann16001a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- IDCS J1426.5+3508
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Missouri/M.Brodwin et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: JPL/CalTech
- Release Date
- 2016-01-08T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noaoann16001a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, X-ray
- Bandpass
- None, None, None
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 216.635586673, 35.1394140014
- Reference Dimension
- 2136.0, 1200.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1068.0, 600.0
- Scale
- -1.45113974561e-05, 1.45113974561e-05
- Rotation
- -0.16
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noaoann16001a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noaoann16001a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2020-06-12T01:39:16+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
