Hubble Deep Field South--Multiple Windows on the Universe

esahubble_opo9841f November 23rd, 1998

Credit: R. Williams (STScI), the HDF-S Team, and NASA/ESA

Hubble's Near Infrared and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) captures the 'invisible light' coming from stars hidden in dusty galaxies, and galaxies that are so far away their light has been stretched beyond the red end of the visible spectrum.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9841f/

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: HDF-S • Hubble Deep Field South
Subject - Distant Universe: Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 22h 33m 10.6s; DEC = -60° 35’ 22.1”
Orientation: North is 4.1° CW
Field of View: 11.5 x 11.5 arcminutes
Constellation: Tucana

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (NICMOS)	Infrared (H)	2.2 µm
Hubble (NICMOS)	Infrared (J)	1.1 µm

ID: opo9841f
Subject Category: D.6.1.1
Subject Name: HDF-S, Hubble Deep Field South
Credits: R. Williams (STScI), the HDF-S Team, and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1998-11-23T21:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9841f/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: NICMOS, NICMOS
Color Assignment

Band: Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass: H, J
Central Wavelength: 2200, 1100

Start Time
Integration Time: 111000, 176000
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 338.294191976, -60.5894834856
Reference Dimension: 639.0, 639.0

Reference Pixel: 319.5, 319.5
Scale: -0.000299330222793, 0.000299330222793
Rotation: -4.1399999999999846
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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: opo9841f

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9841f.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:52:29+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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