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ACS Z-band Simulation of Primordial Galaxies (Annotated)

This image is a demonstration of ACS's ability to detect primordial galaxies. These most distant galaxies in the universe (circled), which are seen at an epoch when the universe was only about 5% of its present age, will be visible in images taken through the ACS "z-band" filter,...

Date
Jan 1, 2002
Mission
Hubble Space Telescope
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hubblesite-images-2002-06-1159-image
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This image is a demonstration of ACS's ability to detect primordial galaxies. These most distant galaxies in the universe (circled), which are seen at an epoch when the universe was only about 5% of its present age, will be visible in images taken through the ACS "z-band" filter, the reddest filter in the ACS instrument.

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NASA and the ACS Science Team

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