Teenage galaxies in the distant Universe

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eso_eso1212a March 14th, 2012

Credit: ESO/CFHT

This deep view of a tiny patch of sky in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster) shows a selection of galaxies, marked with red crosses, that were used in a new survey of the feeding habits of young galaxies as they grew through cosmic time. Each of the tiny blobs, galaxies seen as they were between three and five billion years after the Big Bang, has been studied in detail using ESO’s VLT and the SINFONI instrument.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1212a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS)
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field
Eso_eso1212a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 2h 27m 0.1s
DEC = -4° 24’ 0.8”
Orientation
North is 0.1° CCW
Field of View
41.7 x 40.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Cetus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue None (None) Ultraviolet -
Green None (None) Optical -
Red CFHT (MegaCam) Infrared (z) -
Green CFHT (MegaCam) Optical (r) -
Red CFHT (MegaCam) Infrared (u) -
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ID
eso1212a
Subject Category
D.6.1.1  
Subject Name
VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS)
Credits
ESO/CFHT
Release Date
2012-03-14T12:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1212a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
None, None, CFHT, CFHT, CFHT
Instrument
None, None, MegaCam, MegaCam, MegaCam
Color Assignment
Blue, Green, Red, Green, Red
Band
Ultraviolet, Optical, Infrared, Optical, Infrared
Bandpass
-, -, z, r, u
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
36.750315968, -4.40021859922
Reference Dimension
6719.0, 6536.0
Reference Pixel
1718.80612878, 3931.79836727
Scale
-0.00010333221, 0.00010333221
Rotation
0.05546362580
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.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
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso1212a
Metadata Date
2012-03-07T12:36:49+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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