Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
ESO 325-G004, Abell S0740 |
| Object Description: |
Giant Elliptical Galaxy and its Host Galaxy Cluster |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 13h 43m 33s.30
Dec. -38° 10' 34".0 |
| Constellation: |
Centaurus |
| Distance: |
Approximately 463 million light-years (142 Megaparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
This image is roughy 2.9 arcminutes (385,000 light-years or 120 kiloparsecs) wide. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
The Hubble image was created from HST data from proposal 10429: PI: J. Blakeslee (Washington State University), J. Lucey and R. Smith (University of Durham), J. Tonry (University of Hawaii), and S. Mei (Johns Hopkins University); and 10710: K. Noll, H. Bond, C. Christian, L. Frattare, F. Hamilton, Z. Levay, M. Mutchler, W. Januszewski, and T. Royle (Hubble Heritage Team/STScI), and J. Blakeslee (Washington State University). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
| Filters: |
F475W (g), F625W (r), and F814W (I) |
| Exposure Date(s): |
January 2005/February 2006 |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
| Release Date: |
February 6, 2007 |
| Color: |
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters. Three filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
| F475W (g) |
blue |
| F625W (r) |
green |
| F814W (I) |
red |
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| Orientation: |
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