Faint Blue Galaxies

Esahubble_opo9508a_1024

esahubble_opo9508a July 24th, 1995

Credit: Rogier Windhorst and Simon Driver (Arizona State University), Bill Keel (University of Alabama), and NASA/ESA

One of the deepest images of the sky taken to date with the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a population of faint blue galaxies which turn out to be the most common class of objects in the universe.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9508a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Faint Blue Galaxies
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy
Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Infrared (I) -
Green Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (V) -
Blue Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (B) -
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ID
opo9508a
Subject Category
D.5   D.6.1.1  
Subject Name
Faint Blue Galaxies
Credits
Rogier Windhorst and Simon Driver (Arizona State University), Bill Keel (University of Alabama), and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1995-07-24T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9508a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
I, V, B
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
573.0, 661.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9508a
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:43:40+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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