Pan across CLASS B1608+656
Hubble's images might look flat, but this one actually has a remarkable depth of field that lets us see more than halfway to the edge of the observable Universe.
Most of the galaxies visible here are members of a huge cluster called CLASS B1608+656, which lies about five billion light-years away. But the field also contains other objects, both significantly closer and far more distant, including quasar QSO-160913+653228 which is so distant its light has taken nine billion years to reach us, two thirds of the time that has elapsed since the Big Bang.
Credit:About the Video
Id: | heic1408b |
Release date: | 17 April 2014, 16:00 |
Related releases: | heic1408 |
Duration: | 28 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Name: | CLASS B1608+656 |
Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
Category: | Galaxies |
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