Image:Abell S740.jpg

Description	Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies (Abell S0740)
Source	http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2007/08/images/a/formats/full_jpg.jpg
Date	January 2007
Author	J. Blakeslee (Washington State University)
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Description: [5]

ABOUT THIS IMAGE:

This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies in the cluster Abell S0740 that is over 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Centaurus.

The giant elliptical ESO 325-G004 looms large at the cluster's center. The galaxy is as massive as 100 billion of our suns. Hubble resolves thousands of globular star clusters orbiting ESO 325-G004. Globular clusters are compact groups of hundreds of thousands of stars that are gravitationally bound together. At the galaxy's distance they appear as pinpoints of light contained within the diffuse halo.

Other fuzzy elliptical galaxies dot the image. Some have evidence of a disk or ring structure that gives them a bow-tie shape. Several spiral galaxies are also present. The starlight in these galaxies is mainly contained in a disk and follows along spiral arms.

This image was created by combining Hubble science observations taken in January 2005 with Hubble Heritage observations taken a year later to form a 3-color composite. The filters that isolate blue, red and infrared light were used with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard Hubble.

For more information, contact:

Ray Villard

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.

(phone) 410-338-4514, (e-mail) villard@stsci.edu or

John Blakeslee

Washington State University, Pullman, Wash.

(phone) 509-335-2414, (e-mail) jblakes@wsu.edu or

Keith Noll

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.

(phone) 410-338-1828, (e-mail) noll@stsci.edu

Object Names: ESO 325-G004, Abell S0740

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Acknowledgment: J. Blakeslee (Washington State University)

• Abell S740
• Giant diffuse galaxy