The Spiderweb Galaxy (PGC 2826829, MRC 1138−262) is an irregular galaxy located in the Hydra constellation, with a redshift of 2.156, which is 10.6 billion light years from the Milky Way. It has been imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on 12 October 2006. It was thoroughly studied through radio astronomy, but it was not until the Hubble Space Telescope took a mosaic of photographs from May 17 to May 22, 2005, that its true nature became known. This was documented for the first time on October 10, 2006, in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, volume 650, number 1. The photography was carried out using an advanced camera for surveys by a team led by George K. Miley of the Netherlands' Leiden Observatory.
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Spiderweb Galaxy in the context of Intracluster medium
In astronomy, the intracluster medium (ICM) is the superheated plasma that permeates a galaxy cluster. The gas consists mainly of ionized hydrogen and helium and accounts for most of the baryonic material in galaxy clusters. The ICM is heated to temperatures on the order of 10 to 100 megakelvins, emitting strong X-ray radiation.
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