Close-up on double Einstein ring
This is a close-up of a gravitational lens showing two concentric partial ring-like structures after subtracting the glare of the central, foreground galaxy.
Credit:
NASA, ESA, and R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
About the Image
| Id: | heic0803c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 10 January 2008, 16:00 |
| Related release: | heic0803 |
| Size: | 465 x 639 px |
About the Object
| Name: | SDSSJ0946+1006 |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed |
| Distance: | z=0.609 (redshift) |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
