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Galaxia HUDF-JD2 en el campo ultraprofundo del Hubble

This image demonstrates how data from two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, are used to identify one of the most distant galaxies ever seen. This galaxy is unusually massive for its youthful age of 800 million years. (After the Big Bang, the...

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Jan 1, 2005
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Hubble Space Telescope
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This image demonstrates how data from two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, are used to identify one of the most distant galaxies ever seen. This galaxy is unusually massive for its youthful age of 800 million years. (After the Big Bang, the Milky Way by comparison, is approximately 13 billion years old.)

[Left] - The galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). This is the deepest image of the universe ever made at optical and near-infrared wavelengths.

[Upper Right] - A blow-up of one small area of the HUDF is used to identify where the distant galaxy is located (inside green circle). This indicates that the galaxy's visible light has been absorbed by traveling billions of light-years through intervening hydrogen.

[Center Right] - The galaxy was detected using Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). But at near-infrared wavelengths it is very faint and red.

[Bottom Right] - The Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), easily detects the galaxy at longer infrared wavelengths. Spitzer's IRAC is sensitive to the light from older, redder stars which should make up most of the mass in a galaxy. The brightness of the infrared galaxy suggests that it is quite massive.

Credits

NASA, ESA, B. Mobasher (Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency)

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameHubble Ultra Deep Field; HUDF, HUDF-JD2, UDF033238.74-274839.9
Object DescriptionHigh-Redshift Galaxy in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
R.A. Position03h 32m 39.99s
Dec. Position-27° 48' 0.0"
ConstellationFornax
DistanceThis galaxy has a redshift of z = 6.5.
About The Data
Data DescriptionThe HUDF image was created from HST data from proposal : S. Beckwith, S. Malhotra, M. Giavalisco, N. Panagia, J. Rhoads, M. Stiavelli, R. Somerville, S. Casertano, B. Margon, C. Blades, J. Caldwell, and M. Clampin (STScI), M. Corbin (CSC), M. Dickinson, H. Ferguson, and A. Fruchter (STScI), R. Hook (STScI/ECF), S. Jogee, A. Koekemoer, R. Lucas, M. Sosey and L. Bergeron (STScI). The NICMOS HUDF image was created from HST data from proposal: : R. Thompson (U. Arizona), G. Illingworth and R. Bouwens (UCSC), M. Dickinson (STScI), D. Eisenstein and X. Fan (U. Arizona), M. Franx (U. Leiden), M. Rieke (U. of Arizona) , A. Riess (STScI) , P. van Dokkum (Yale U.). The science team for HUDF-JD2 includes: B. Mobasher (STScI/ESA); M. Dickinson (NOAO); H.C. Ferguson and M. Giavalisco (STScI); T. Wiklind (STScI/ESA); D. Stark and R.S. Ellis (Caltech); M. Fall (STScI); N. A. Grogin (JHU); L. Moustakas (STScI); N. Panagia (STScI/ESA); M. Sosey, M. Stiavelli, E. Bergeron, and S. Casertano (STScI); P. Ingram (Gemini Obs.); A. Koekemoer (STScI); I. Labbe (Carnegie Obs.); M. Livio (STScI); B. Rogers (Gemini Obs.); C. Scarlata (Inst. for Astronomy, Zurich, Switzerland); J. Venet, A. Renzini and P. Rosati (ESO); H. Kuntschner, M. Kummel, and J.R. Walsh (STECF/ESO). The Spitzer science team includes: H. Yan (SSC, Caltech), M Dickinson (NOAO), D Stern (JPL), P.R.M. Eisenhardt (JPL), R.-R. Chary (SSC, Caltech), M. Giavalisco (STScI), H.C. Ferguson (STScI), S. Casertano (STScI), C.J. Conselice (Caltech), C. Papovich (Steward), W.T. Reach (SSC, Caltech), N. Grogin (STScI), L.A. Moustakas (JPL), M. Ouchi (STScI).
InstrumentHST>ACS/WFC, HST>NICMOS, and SST/IRAC
Exposure DatesSeptember 24, 2003 - January 16, 2004 (ACS), September 3, 2003 - November 27, 2003 (NICMOS), and February 2004 (IRAC)
FiltersACS: F435W (B), F606W (V), F775W (I), F850LP (z) NICMOS: F110W (J110) and F160W (H160) IRAC: 3.6 microns, 4.5 microns, 5.8 microns, and 8.0 microns
About The Image
Color InfoHUDF Image (left) Blue: F435W (B) Green: F606W (V) + F775W (I) Red: F850LP (z)

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