Hubble photographs home of farthest fast radio burst (clean image)
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the host galaxy of an exceptionally powerful Fast Radio Burst, FRB20220610A. Hubble’s sensitivity and sharpness reveals a compact group of multiple galaxies that may be in the process of merging. They existed when the Universe was only 5 billion years old. FRB 20220610A was first detected on June 10, 2022 by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in Western Australia, and confirmed to come from a distant origin by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
[Image description: This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a field of blue, red, orange, yellow and white distant galaxies against the black backdrop of space.]
Credit:NASA, ESA, STScI, Alexa Gordon (Northwestern University)
About the Image
Id: | heic2402c |
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Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 9 January 2024, 21:15 |
Related releases: | heic2402 |
Size: | 2377 x 1752 px |
About the Object
Wallpapers
Coordinates
Position (RA): | 23 24 20.61 |
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Position (Dec): | -33° 30' 33.78" |
Field of view: | 1.57 x 1.16 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 0.0° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical V | 606 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
Infrared H | 1.6 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |