Hubble finds most of visible light in the Universe

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esahubble_opo9806b January 7th, 1998

Credit: M. Vogeley (Princeton University Observatory) and NASA/ESA

A closer look at the Hubble Space Telescope's most detailed image, the Hubble Deep Field, reveals that the faint galaxies seen by Hubble could account for most of the visible light in the cosmos. "We appear close to completing a 'light census' of the universe,'' reports Michael S. Vogeley of the Princeton University Observatory. "The extraordinary smoothness of the background sky suggests that most of the visible light in the universe hails from galaxies that Hubble can detect.''

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Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9806b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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Observation
Object Name
HDF • Hubble Deep Field
Subject - General
Cosmology
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opo9806b
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E.6  
Subject Name
HDF, Hubble Deep Field
Credits
M. Vogeley (Princeton University Observatory) and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1998-01-07T06:00:00
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Redshift
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https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9806b/
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Observation
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Bandpass
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Equinox
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510.0, 512.0
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FITS Header
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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
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9806b
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http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9806b.jpg
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