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| Abell 2744 NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI) |
Far out!! No, I LITERALLY mean FAR OUT. This image is one of the few captured by NASA's Hubble space Telescope that are from the deepest ever observation of a galaxy cluster to date!
The images of the galaxy cluster known as Abell 2744 also shows background galaxies more than 12 billion light-years away.
The images of the galaxy cluster known as Abell 2744 also shows background galaxies more than 12 billion light-years away.
Three NASA space telescopes (Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra) are teaming up to give astronomers their best-ever looks at some of the most distant objects in the universe.
NASA says that the 3 amigos over there, should be able to spot galaxies that existed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang created our universe 13.8 billion years ago. The telescopes will collectively observe six huge galaxy clusters over the next three years as part of a project called The Frontier Fields.
Although Abell 2744 has been studied before, the newer, fancier Frontier Fields images have shown some new details about the cluster. The super-de-duper brolic space telescope caught sight of dwarf galaxies that are 1/1000th the mass of the Milky Way. While that may not seem very impressive to some, it also found galaxies that are ONE HUNDERED TIMES more massive than our own galaxy! HOLY CRAP, that's a big meatball. Several big meatballs, to be fair.
Resource:
http://www.space.com/24195-hubble-frontier-fields-photos-aas223.html?cmpid=514630_20140109_16757154
NASA says that the 3 amigos over there, should be able to spot galaxies that existed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang created our universe 13.8 billion years ago. The telescopes will collectively observe six huge galaxy clusters over the next three years as part of a project called The Frontier Fields.
Although Abell 2744 has been studied before, the newer, fancier Frontier Fields images have shown some new details about the cluster. The super-de-duper brolic space telescope caught sight of dwarf galaxies that are 1/1000th the mass of the Milky Way. While that may not seem very impressive to some, it also found galaxies that are ONE HUNDERED TIMES more massive than our own galaxy! HOLY CRAP, that's a big meatball. Several big meatballs, to be fair.
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Galaxies! Looks like dozens and dozens of them! Imagine how much life they could hold.
Resource:
http://www.space.com/24195-hubble-frontier-fields-photos-aas223.html?cmpid=514630_20140109_16757154
