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Virgo Cluster Galaxy VCC 1993 (2MASX J12441198+1256306, VCC 1993) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Deep fields & lensing

Virgo Cluster Galaxy VCC 1993

August 5, 2008 · NASA · 2MASX J12441198+1256306, VCC 1993 · Virgo

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About the colours

Blue: F475W (SDSS g)Orange: F850LP (long pass z)

About the data

HST Proposal: 9401 P. Cote (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, BC), J. Blakeslee (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory/Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and Washington State University), L. Ferrarese (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, BC), A. Jordan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Mei (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees), D. Merritt (Rochester Institute of Technology), M. Milosavljevic (California Institute of Technology), J. Tonry (University of Hawaii), E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing), and M. West (European Southern Observatory, Chile).