Visible-Light Image of Galaxy Cluster MS 0735
This image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 was taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in February 2006. The Advanced Camera for Surveys image shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity. Diffuse, hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies. A supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurks in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy.
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo0651d |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 2 November 2006, 19:00 |
| Size: | 5478 x 5494 px |
About the Object
| Name: | MS 0735.6+742 |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster • Galaxies Images/Videos |
| Distance: | z=0.216 (redshift) |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
