Ground-based image of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654
This is a colour image of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 obtained with the CFHT12k camera at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea (Hawaii). The cluster clearly appears as a concentration of yellow galaxies in the centre of this image although cluster galaxies actually extend at least to the edge of this image. This image measures 21 x 21 arc-minutes.
Credit:
European Space Agency, NASA, Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France/Caltech, USA) and the Canada France Hawaii Telescope
About the Image
| Id: | heic0309c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 17 July 2003, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0309 |
| Size: | 5771 x 5770 px |
About the Object
| Name: | CL0024+1654 |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Star : Grouping : Cluster • Galaxies Images/Videos |
| Distance: | z=0.4 (redshift) |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
Other |
| Optical V |
Other |
| Optical R |
Other |
| Infrared I |
Other |
