Hubbles Spectacular Wide View of the Universe

Esahubble_heic1909a_1024

esahubble_heic1909a May 2nd, 2019

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.

Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant Universe, called the Hubble Legacy Field, that documents 16 years of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image contains 200,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The new set of Hubble images, created from nearly 7,500 individual exposures, is the first in a series of Hubble Legacy Field images. The image comprises the collective work of 31 Hubble programs by different teams of astronomers. Hubble has spent more time on this small area than on any other region of the sky, totaling more than 250 days, representing nearly three-quarters of a year. The team is working on a second set of images, totaling more than 5,200 Hubble exposures, in another area of the sky.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1909a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Hubble Legacy Field
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology
Esahubble_heic1909a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 3h 32m 26.4s
DEC = -27° 47’ 27.6”
Orientation
North is 0.1° CW
Field of View
20.8 x 19.2 arcminutes
Constellation
Fornax

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Cyan Hubble (ACS) Optical (V) 606.0 nm
Cyan Hubble (WFC3) Optical (V) 606.0 nm
Orange Hubble (ACS) Optical (z) 850.0 nm
Orange Hubble (WFC3) Optical (z) 850.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Cyan
Cyan
Orange
Orange
Esahubble_heic1909a_1280
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ID
heic1909a
Subject Category
D.6  
Subject Name
Hubble Legacy Field
Credits
NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.
Release Date
2019-05-02T16:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://esahubble.org/images/heic1909a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Good
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS, WFC3, ACS, WFC3
Color Assignment
Cyan, Cyan, Orange, Orange
Band
Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
V, V, z, z
Central Wavelength
606, 606, 850, 850
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
None, None, None, None
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
53.1100744947, -27.7909884231
Reference Dimension
20791.0, 19201.0
Reference Pixel
10395.5, 9600.5
Scale
-1.66604819083e-05, 1.66604819083e-05
Rotation
-0.059999999999981513
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
coordinates tagged by: ESA/Mahdi Zamani 4K-res-scale: 8.6598169412264653E-05
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
https://esahubble.org
Name
Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
Email
outreach@stsci.edu
Telephone
410-338-4444
Address
ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
City
Baltimore
State/Province
MD
Postal Code
21218
Country
United States
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
heic1909a
Metadata Date
2019-04-29T17:30:33+02:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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