Quasar 3C 273
stsci_2024-024a December 5th, 2024
Credit: NASA, ESA, Bin Ren (Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS); Acknowledgement: John Bachall (IAS); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to see unprecedented details near the black hole such as weird filaments, lobes, and a mysterious L-shaped structure, probably caused by small galaxies being devoured by the black hole. Located 2.5 billion light-years away, 3C 273 is the first quasar (quasi-stellar object) ever discovered, in 1963.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-024
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2024-024a
- Subject Category
- C.5.4.6
- Subject Name
- 3c273
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, Bin Ren (Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS); Acknowledgement: John Bachall (IAS); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2024-12-05
- Lightyears
- 2,500,000,000
- Redshift
- 2,500,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-024
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- distance in light-years
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, STIS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 450, 606, -
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 187.28850607222, 2.04641940556
- Reference Dimension
- 1084.00, 1400.00
- Reference Pixel
- -386.30212984597, 181.20397339163
- Scale
- -0.00001049552, 0.00001049552
- Rotation
- 19.60158918647
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://stsci.edu
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://stsci.edu/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p24024a-f-1084x1400.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2024-024/STSCI-H-p24024a-f-1084x1400.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-12-20T11:53:40-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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