GOODS South Field

This Hubble Space Telescope view reveals thousands of galaxies stretching back into time across billions of light-years of space. The image covers a portion of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). GOODS is a mosaic image that combines deep-field observations from Hubble, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, augmented with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM Newton, and some of the world's most powerful ground-based telescopes, such as the 4 m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.