Tag Archive for 'Abell 1689'

This artist’s conception illustrates the previously unknown complexity of the young galaxy A1689-zD1. Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / B. Saxton, NRAO, AUI & NSF.

Early Galaxies May Have Been Bigger Than Previously Thought

Jun 14, 2022 by News Staff

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have observed a significant amount of cold, neutral gas in the outer regions...

The spiral galaxy A1689B11 sits behind the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 that acts as a lens, producing two magnified images of the spiral galaxy in different positions in the sky. Image credit: James Josephides.

Astronomers Discover Most Ancient Spiral Galaxy

Nov 6, 2017 by News Staff

Using data from the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) on the Gemini North telescope in Hawai’i, astronomers have identified what they...

This spectacular view from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster Abell 1689. The galaxy A1689-zD1 is located in the box, although it is still so faint that it is barely seen in this picture. Image credit: NASA / ESA / L. Bradley, Johns Hopkins University / R. Bouwens, University of California, Santa Cruz /H. Ford, Johns Hopkins University / G. Illingworth, University of California, Santa Cruz.

A1689-zD1: Astronomers Find Highly Evolved Galaxy in Early Universe

Mar 3, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, headed by Dr Darach Watson of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has used the X-ray instrument on ESO’s Very...

This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689 and the newly discovered galaxies, circled. Image credit: NASA / ESA / B. Siana and A. Alavi, University of California, Riverside.

Abell 1689 Helps Astronomers Discover Dozens of Early Galaxies

Jan 8, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers, reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org), used the magnification power of the massive cluster of galaxies...

This new Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell 1689. Image credit: NASA / ESA / the Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA / J. Blakeslee / NRC Herzberg Astrophysics Program / Dominion Astrophysical Observatory / H. Ford / JHU.

Hubble Finds Largest Population of Globular Clusters in Abell 1689

Sep 25, 2013 by News Staff

New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found. This...