HDF-N HST/ACS/WFC Full Mosaic
Full mosaic of the Hubble Deep Field North.
The full field, consisting of about 25,000 galaxies, is part of a larger survey called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), the most ambitious study of the early universe yet undertaken with the Hubble telescope. This survey targeted two representative spots in the sky - one in the Northern Hemisphere and the other in the Southern Hemisphere. This image represents the northern field. The entire GOODS survey reveals roughly 50,000 galaxies. Astronomers have identified more than 2,000 of them as infant galaxies, observed when the universe was less than about 2 billion years old.
Credit:About the Image
About the Object
Name: | HDF-N, Hubble Deep Field North |
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Type: | Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field |
Constellation: | Ursa Major |
Category: | Cosmology Galaxies |
Image Formats
Coordinates
Position (RA): | 12 36 55.51 |
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Position (Dec): | 62° 14' 13.94" |
Field of view: | 13.34 x 19.83 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 52.0° right 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 |
Infrared Z | 850 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |