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GOODS Field Containing Distant Dwarf Galaxies Forming Stars at an Incredible Rate (Illustrated)
This image shows a region of space containing a sample of dwarf galaxies studied by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hiding among these thousands of galaxies are faint dwarf galaxies (marked by the red circles) that resided in the early universe, between 2 and 6 billion years after...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2014
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2014-25-3375-image
This image shows a region of space containing a sample of dwarf galaxies studied by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hiding among these thousands of galaxies are faint dwarf galaxies (marked by the red circles) that resided in the early universe, between 2 and 6 billion years after the big bang, an important time period when most of the stars in the universe were formed. Some of these galaxies are undergoing a ferociously fast rate of star formation called "starbursts." Astronomers are striving to deduce the galaxies' contribution to star formation in this crucial era of the universe's history. The image is part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).
Credits
Photo: NASA, ESA, the GOODS Team, and M. Giavalisco (University of Massachusetts, Amherst);Science: NASA, ESA, and H. Atek and J.-P. Kneib (EPFL, Switzerland)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | GOODS-South (GOODS-S) |
| Object Description | Optical Survey |
| R.A. Position | 03h 31m 59.99s |
| Dec. Position | -27° 48' 0.0" |
| Constellation | Fornax |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from the following proposals: and PI: M. Giavalisco (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). The science team comprises: H. Atek and J.-P. Kneib (EPFL, Switzerland), C. Pacifici (Yonsei University Observatory, Republic of Korea), M. Malkan (UCLA), S. Charlot (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris), J. Lee (STScI), A. Bedregal (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics), A. Bunker (University of Oxford, UK), J. Colbert (Spitzer Science Center), A. Dressler (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science), N. Hathi (Aix Marseille University, France), M. Lehnert (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France), C. Martin (UC Santa Barbara), P. McCarthy (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science), M. Rafelski (Spitzer Science Center), N. Ross (UCLA), B. Siana (UC Riverside), and H. Teplitz (Caltech). |
| Instrument | HST>ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Dates | July 2002 — Feb. 2003 |
| Filters | F435W (B), F606W (V), F775W (i), and F850LP (z) |
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