Hubble Ultra Deep Field
This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.
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.
Credit:About the Image
Id: | heic0611b |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 21 September 2006, 16:00 |
Related releases: | heic2202, heic1909, heic0611 |
Size: | 6200 x 6200 px |
About the Object
Name: | Hubble Ultra Deep Field, HUDF |
Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster |
Constellation: | Fornax |
Category: | Galaxies |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 3 32 38.92 |
Position (Dec): | -27° 47' 29.37" |
Field of view: | 3.10 x 3.10 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 46.5° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical B | 435 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
Optical V | 606 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |
Infrared I | 775 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |