Wide-field view of the sky around a giant space blob

This visible-light wide-field image of the region around the giant Lyman-alpha blob LAB1 was created from photographs taken through blue and red filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The blob itself lies at the centre of the image but, despite being huge and very luminous, it is so distant that it is too faint to be seen clearly on this picture. The field of view is approximately 2.9 degrees across. 

Credit:

ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2 

About the Image

Id:eso1130c
Type:Observation
Release date:17 August 2011, 19:00
Related releases:eso1632, eso1130
Size:10669 x 10688 px

About the Object

Name:LAB-1
Type:Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Large-Scale Structure
Distance:z=3.1 (redshift)
Constellation:Aquarius
Category:Cosmology

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Coordinates

Position (RA):22 17 25.64
Position (Dec):0° 12' 52.21"
Field of view:179.37 x 179.69 arcminutes
Orientation:North is 0.1° left of vertical

Colours & filters

BandTelescope
Optical
B
Digitized Sky Survey 2
Optical
Pseudogreen (B+R)
Digitized Sky Survey 2
Optical
R
Digitized Sky Survey 2
Infrared
I
Digitized Sky Survey 2