Galaxy Cluster 0024+1654 as a Gravitational Lens
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the same galaxy.
They have been duplicated by the gravitational lens of the cluster of yellow, elliptical and spiral galaxies - called 0024+1654 - near the photograph's center.
Credit:
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9610a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 24 April 1996, 06:00 |
| Size: | 800 x 800 px |
About the Object
| Name: | 0024+1654 |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed • Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
| Distance: | z=0.39 (redshift) |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical Pseudogreen (B+R) |
Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical R |
Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
