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Hubble Legacy Field Crop
Hubble's Spectacular Wide View of the Universe
This Hubble Space Telescope image represents a portion of the Hubble Legacy Field, one of the widest views of the universe ever made.
The image, a combination of thousands of snapshots, represents 16 years' worth of observations.
The Hubble Legacy Field includes observations taken by several Hubble deep-field surveys, including the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), the deepest view of the universe. The wavelength range stretches from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, capturing all the features of galaxy assembly over time. This cropped image mosaic presents a wide portrait of the distant universe and contains roughly 200,000 galaxies. They stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the universe's birth in the big bang.
About the Object
- R.A. PositionR.A. PositionRight ascension – analogous to longitude – is one component of an object's position.3:32:29
- Dec. PositionDec. PositionDeclination – analogous to latitude – is one component of an object's position.-27:49:12
- ConstellationConstellationOne of 88 recognized regions of the celestial sphere in which the object appears.Fornax
About the Data
- Data DescriptionData DescriptionProposal: A description of the observations, their scientific justification, and the links to the data available in the science archive.
Science Team: The astronomers who planned the observations and analyzed the data. "PI" refers to the Principal Investigator.The image was created from public archive Hubble data from the following proposals: 9352, 10189, 10340, 12099, and 12461: A. Riess (STScI/JHU); 9425: M. Giavalsco (University of Massachusetts); 9480, and 9984: J. Rhodes (JPL); 9488: K. Ratnatunga (Carnegie Mellon University); 9500: H. Rix (MPE) 9575: W. Sparks (STScI); 9793, 10530, and 13779: S. Malhotra (Arizona State University); 9803: R. Thompson (University of Arizona) 9978 and 10086: S. Beckwith (STScI); 10258: C. Kretchmer (JHU); 10632: M. Stiavelli (STScI); 11144 R. Bouwens (Universiteit Leiden); 11359: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia); 11563, and 12007: G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz); 12060, 12061, and 12062: S. Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz); 12177: P. van Dokkum (Yale University). 12498: R. Ellis (University College London) 12534: H. Teplitz (California Institute of Technology) 12866: M. Swinbank (Durham University) 12990: A. Muzzin (York University) 13872: P. Oesch (Observatoire de Geneve) 14088: E. Vanzella (INAF) The HLF team members include: G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), I. Labbe (Swinburne University), B. Holden (University of California, Santa Cruz), M. Franx (Leiden University), and V. Gonzalez (Universidad de Chile). - InstrumentInstrumentThe science instrument used to produce the data.ACS/WFC, WC3/IR, WFC3/UVIS
- FiltersFiltersThe camera filters that were used in the science observations.WFC3/UV (F225W, F275W, and F336W); ACS (F435W, F606W, F775W, F814W, and F850LP); WFC3/IR (F098M, F105W, F125W, F140W, and F160W)
- Object NameObject NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.Hubble Legacy Field (Crop)
- Object DescriptionObject DescriptionThe type of astronomical object.Hubble's Wide View of the Evolving Universe (Cropped)
- Release DateMay 2, 2019
- Science ReleaseHubble Astronomers Assemble Wide View of the Evolving Universe
- Credits
These images are composites of separate exposures acquired by the ACS and WFC3 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample broad and narrow 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: Blue: F606W (Wide V) Green: F606W (Wide V) and F850LP (SDSS z') Red: F850LP (SDSS z') The Hubble Legacy Field dataset has images from all three of Hubble's cameras — the WFC3/IR and WFC3/UVIS cameras as well as the ACS. More details about the HLF can be found at https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/hlf/.
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov
