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.
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | 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 • Galaxies Images/Videos • Cosmology Images/Videos |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical V |
606 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
