Sky around galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 (ground-based image)
This is a 2.5-degree field around galaxy cluster CL0024+1654. The cluster galaxies are visible in the centre of the image in yellow. The image is a colour composite constructed from three Digitized Sky Survey 2 images: Blue (shown in blue), Red (shown in green), and Infrared (shown in red).
Credit:
European Space Agency, NASA, Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France/Caltech, USA) and the Digitized Sky Survey
About the Image
| Id: | heic0309d |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 17 July 2003, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0309 |
| Size: | 4390 x 4399 px |
About the Object
| Name: | ClG 0024+1654 |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster • Galaxies Images/Videos • Cosmology Images/Videos |
| Distance: | z=0.4 (redshift) |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
DSS |
| Optical R |
DSS |
| Infrared I |
DSS |
