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Abell 209, John Bozeman

Abell 209

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Abell 209

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Abell 209 is a cluster of galaxies located in the constellation of the Whale at a distance of more than 2.5 billion light years from Earth. Inserted in the homonymous catalog  drawn up by George Abell in 1958, it has a wealth class 3 (in class 3 are clusters made up of 130-199 galaxies) and is of type II-III according to the Bautz-Morgan classification. It was one of the 25 galaxy clusters studied with the Hubble Space Telescope during an observation campaign called Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble ( CLASH ) over a period of three and a half years (2010-2013) . Its redshift has been recalculated, now estimated z = 0.209 (previously 0.206). Abell 209 is located in the vicinity of Abell 222 from which it is separated by the distance of 19.2 Megaparsec (about 62.6 million light years).

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope MAST Pipeline. Release date: 2012-07-16

Camera: WFC3

Color Mapped:

Red-F160W
Green-F105W
Blue-F105W

Processed with FITS Liberator, PixInsight and Photoshop 2022.

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Abell 209, John Bozeman