Above and Beyond: Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744

 

 

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach.

 

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA except:

 

 

·       Gravitational lensing animations courtesy of G. Bacon & F. Summers (STScI) and NASA, ESA & L. Calçada

·       Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory

·       Hubble orbit animation courtesy of G. Bacon (STScI)

·       Hubble Space Telescope slewing animation courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

·       Simulation of a lens passing over the Hubble Deep Field courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

·       Background star field courtesy of A. Feild (STScI)

·       Frontier Fields background star field images courtesy of the Digitized Sky Survey

·       Chandra spacecraft illustration courtesy of Northrop Grumman Corporation

·       Animation of the Hubble Space Telescope flying over Earth courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser)

 

 

Written by Vanessa Thomas

Designed by Marc Lussier 

Music courtesy of Associated Production Music

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Text, Galaxy Cluster Abell 2 7 4 4. Combining visible and infrared light, this Hubble Space Telescope image is one of the deepest views ever captured of a cluster of galaxies.

 

The cluster, called Abell 2 7 4 4, was the first observed during the Frontier Fields program.

 

In this image, there are thousands of background galaxies that appear, including some of the faintest and most distant galaxies ever detected.