Hubble's 100,000th Exposure
Depicts: Quasar
Copyright: Charles Steidel (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) and NASA
The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 clicked this image of the quasar, the bright object in the center of the photo. The fainter object just above it is an elliptical galaxy. Although the two objects appear to be close to each other, they are actually separated by about 2 billion light-years. Located about 7 billion light-years away, the galaxy is almost directly in front of the quasar.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
