Hubble reveals galactic drama [image 5]

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esahubble_heic0406h March 9th, 2004

Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team

A galactic brawl. A close encounter with a spiral galaxy. Blue wisps of galaxies. These close-up snapshots of galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field reveal the drama of galactic life. The galaxies in this panel were plucked from a harvest of nearly 10,000 galaxies in the Ultra Deep Field, the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. The Ultra Deep Field observations, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, represent a narrow, "deep" view of the cosmos. Peering into the Ultra Deep Field is like looking through a 2.5 metre-long soda straw. In ground-based images, the patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty. Located in the constellation Fornax, the region is so empty, in fact, that only a handful of stars within the Milky Way galaxy can be seen in the image. In this image, blue and green correspond to colours that can be seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow of Sun-like stars in the disks of galaxies. Red represents near-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, such as the red glow of dust-enshrouded galaxies. The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0406h/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Hubble Ultra Deep Field HUDF
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy > Grouping > Cluster
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 3h 32m 42.2s
DEC = -27° 47’ 53.5”
Orientation
North is 46.5° CCW
Field of View
0.5 x 0.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Fornax

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Blue Hubble (ACS) Optical (B) 435.0 nm
Green Hubble (ACS) Optical (V) 606.0 nm
Green Hubble (ACS) Infrared (I) 775.0 nm
Red Hubble (ACS) Infrared (Z) 850.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Blue
Green
Green
Red
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ID
heic0406h
Subject Category
D.5.5.3  
Subject Name
Hubble Ultra Deep Field, HUDF
Credits
NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team
Release Date
2004-03-09T15:30:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0406h/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
Color Assignment
Blue, Green, Green, Red
Band
Optical, Optical, Infrared, Infrared
Bandpass
B, V, I, Z
Central Wavelength
435, 606, 775, 850
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
53.1758215561, -27.7982052638
Reference Dimension
1000.0, 1000.0
Reference Pixel
500.0, 500.0
Scale
-8.3312350623e-06, 8.3312350623e-06
Rotation
46.480000000000011
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
heic0406h
Metadata Date
2004-03-02T11:49:41-05:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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