Heavyweight Champion of the Distant Universe
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.
Credit:X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Missouri/M.Brodwin et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: JPL/CalTech
About the Image
Id: | noaoann16001a |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | Jan. 8, 2016 |
Related announcements: | noaoann16001 |
Size: | 2136 x 1200 px |
About the Object
Name: | IDCS J1426.5+3508 |
Constellation: | Bootes |
Category: | Galaxies |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 14 26 32.54 |
Position (Dec): | 35° 8' 21.89" |
Field of view: | 1.86 x 1.04 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 0.2° right of vertical |
Colors & filters
Band | Tele-scope |
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X-ray | Chandra X-ray Observatory |
Optical | Hubble Space Telescope |
Infrared | Spitzer Space Telescope |