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CANDELS Field

CANDELS Field

About the Object

  • R.A. Position
    R.A. PositionRight ascension – analogous to longitude – is one component of an object's position.
    14h 20m 34.89s
  • Dec. Position
    Dec. PositionDeclination – analogous to latitude – is one component of an object's position.
    53° 0' 15.4"
  • Constellation
    ConstellationOne of 88 recognized regions of the celestial sphere in which the object appears.
    Boötes

About the Data

  • Instrument
    InstrumentThe science instrument used to produce the data.
    HST>ACS/WFC and HST>WFC3/IR
  • Filters
    FiltersThe camera filters that were used in the science observations.
    ACS/WFC: F606W (V) WFC3/IR: F125W (J) and F160W (H)
  • Object Name
    Object NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.
    CANDELS survey, Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
  • Object Description
    Object DescriptionThe type of astronomical object.
    Field of galaxies
  • Release Date
    May 5, 2015
  • Science Release
    Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record
    Read the release
  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, P. Oesch and I. Momcheva (Yale University), and the 3D-HST and HUDF09/XDF Teams

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CANDELS Field
Color Info
Color InfoA brief description of the methods used to convert telescope data into the color image being presented.

These images are composites of separate exposures acquired by the ACS and the WFC3 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: F606W (V) F125W (J) F160W (H)

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Distant Galaxy EGS-zs8-1 in CANDELS Field

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date (inset). It was identified in this Hubble image of a field of galaxies in the CANDELS survey (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey). NASA's...

Hubble ACS Image of EGS-zs8-1

Hubble ACS Image of EGS-zs8-1

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Last Updated
Feb 17, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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