Hubble Deep Field South Unveils Myriad Galaxies

esahubble_opo9841b November 23rd, 1998

Credit: R. Williams (STScI), the HDF-S Team, and NASA/ESA

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view down a 12 billion light-year long corridor of space loaded with a dazzling assortment of thousands of never-before seen galaxies.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9841b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HDF-S • Hubble Deep Field South
Subject - Distant Universe: Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 22h 32m 52.0s; DEC = -60° 33’ 9.0”
Orientation: North is 6.5° CW
Field of View: 1.2 x 1.2 arcminutes
Constellation: Tucana

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2)	Infrared (I)	814.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (V)	606.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (B)	450.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Ultraviolet (U)	300.0 nm

ID: opo9841b
Subject Category: D.6.1.1
Subject Name: HDF-S, Hubble Deep Field South
Credits: R. Williams (STScI), the HDF-S Team, and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1998-11-23T21:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9841b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
Bandpass: I, V, B, U
Central Wavelength: 814, 606, 450, 300

Start Time
Integration Time: 100300, 81275, 100950, 140185
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Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 338.216612422, -60.5524901138
Reference Dimension: 1771.0, 1819.0

Reference Pixel: 885.5, 909.5
Scale: -1.10590508973e-05, 1.10590508973e-05
Rotation: -6.5399999999999832
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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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: opo9841b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9841b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:52:09+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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