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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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.
| Date | June 29, 2002 |
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| Credit | Credit: R. Williams ( STScI ), HDF-S Team , NASA |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |