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Hubble Deep Field: False-Color Image Showing Distant Galaxies and Stars in Red
This false-color image is a closeup of the Hubble Space Telescope's "Deep Field," showing a region of the sky that is only 41 arcseconds on a side (about one-fortieth the size of the Moon). The red regions in this figure correspond to galaxies and stars that Hubble detects. The smallest red patches are galaxies that are four billion times fainter than the human eye could see.
- Object NameObject NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.HDF-N
- Release DateJanuary 7, 1998
- Science ReleaseHubble Finds Most of Visible Light in the Universe
- CreditCredit: Dr. Michael S. Vogeley - Princeton University Observatory
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Hubble Deep Field: False Color Image
Could even fainter galaxies lie hidden in the image? To test if more galaxies might lurk in the spaces between the galaxies that Hubble finds, in this image we have removed the detected galaxies, smoothed the picture, and amplified the color scale by a factor of ten. Grey...
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