Hubble Smiley Face: Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies SDSS J1038+4849 (Sendhil Chinnasamy)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: MQ J103755.26+485128.8 · MQ J103809.36+485808.5 · MQ J103814.80+485353.5 · MQ J103835.40+485703.1 · MQ J103839.76+484922.3 · MQ J103847.67+484856.6 · MQ J103859.41+484846.1 · PGC 139405 · PGC 2324623 · PGC 2325642 · PGC 2326879 · PGC 2327673 · PGC 2329245 · PGC 31686 · PGC 31709 · SBS 1036+490 · SDSS J103738.47+485008.8 · SDSS J103749.78+485049.6 · SDSS J103752.27+485621.0 · SDSS J103812.42+484523.0 · SDSS J103827.56+485818.8 · SDSS J103829.96+484925.5 · SDSS J103830.76+484715.2 · SDSS J103845.38+484708.6 · SDSS J103850.02+484549.1 · SDSS J103853.21+485132.7 · SDSS J103905.17+484850.6 · SDSS J103907.88+484809.1 · SDSS J103917.21+485555.7 · SDSS J103920.20+485455.8 · And 13 more.

Image of the day 03/19/2024

Hubble Smiley Face: Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies SDSS J1038+4849

Image of the day 03/19/2024

Hubble Smiley Face: Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies SDSS J1038+4849

It is done, finally! Once Anis got his setup going with the 268M cam, we decided to collaborate and go deep into this region.

Over 200 hours collected to what looks like a starfield

. But we encourage you to look at it in full screen to see all of the distant galaxies littered around and of course the star of this image, the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849. The two eyes are the distant galaxies SDSSCGB 8842.3 and SDSSCGB 8842.4 4.5, about 4.5 billion light-years away!

The light from those galaxies passes by J1038 on its way to Earth, and travels through the region of space distorted by the galaxies’ gravity. This bends the light, acting like a giant lens made of gravity (hence the term gravitational lens)

Included the Hubble image as an overlay. Ref: Smiling Lens

We hope you like this image. Clear skies!

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RA (center)	10h38m47s.158
RA (top/left)	10h40m01s.542
RA (top/right)	10h37m32s.597
RA (bottom/right)	10h37m33s.206
RA (bottom/left)	10h40m01s.402

Dec (center)	+48°50′29″.53
Dec (top/left)	+48°58′29″.39
Dec (top/right)	+48°58′26″.48
Dec (bottom/right)	+48°42′26″.65
Dec (bottom/left)	+48°42′30″.20

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