A Deep Field In The Southern Sky
Explanation:
This
deep view of the cosmos is the sequel to the 1995 hit
Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field.
Billed as
the Hubble Deep Field South, it was produced
by pointing the space telescope toward a patch of sky in the
southern constellation Tucana.
Over a period of 10 days, many separate exposures were accumulated
and combined to reveal progressively fainter galaxies.
The original deep field was constructed by observing a piece of sky
in the
northern constellation Ursa Major.
Both stare down 12 billion light-year long tunnels
to far-off and still mysterious times when
young galaxies inhabited
an infant universe.
Hubble Deep Field South observations were released to an
enthusiastic
audience on November 23, 1998.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
