Hubble's Top Ten Gravitational Lenses. A View of HST 14176+5226
HST 14176+5226 is the first, and brightest lens system discovered in 1995 with the Hubble telescope. This lens candidate has now been confirmed spectroscopically using large ground-based telescopes. The elliptical lensing galaxy is located 7 billion light-years away, and the lensed quasar is about 11 billion light-years distant.
Credit:Kavan Ratnatunga (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) and NASA/ESA
About the Image
NASA press releaseId: | opo9918f |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 13 May 1999, 06:00 |
Size: | 65 x 65 px |
About the Object
Name: | HST 14176+5226 |
Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed |
Category: | Cosmology Galaxies
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Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical V | 606 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
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