Hubble's View of 18 Proto Galaxies

esahubble_opo9629a September 4th, 1996

Credit: Rogier Windhorst and Sam Pascarelle (Arizona State University) and NASA/ESA

Embedded in this Hubble Space Telescope image of nearby and distant galaxies are 18 young galaxies or galactic building blocks, each containing dust, gas, and a few billion stars. Each of these objects is 11 billion light-years from Earth and much smaller than today's galaxies.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9629a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Proto Galaxy
Subject - Distant Universe: Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2)	Infrared (I)	-
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (V)	-
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (B)	-

ID: opo9629a
Subject Category: D.6.1.1
Subject Name: Proto Galaxy
Credits: Rogier Windhorst and Sam Pascarelle (Arizona State University) and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1996-09-04T21:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9629a/

Type: Observation
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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
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Reference Dimension: 1113.0, 1097.0

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9629a

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9629a.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:46:52+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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