Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) project.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Acknowledgement: H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI), 10,000 Galaxies a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Tie yourself to your chairs, Kogs, so you do not fall out. Nikki Cassis of Arizona State University writes Hubble unveils its most colorful view of the universe, which shows up the most comprehensive, and most colorful (in terms of wavelength spectrum) ever yet shown, which has just been released June 3. I would have put "Breaking" in the title but lacked "space," (so to speak.)
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving universe – and one of the most colorful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) project, provides the missing link in star formation, say researchers.
Prior to this survey, astronomers were in a curious position. They had knowledge of star formation in nearby galaxies from missions such as NASA's GALEX observatory. And, thanks to Hubble's near-infrared capability, they also studied star birth in the most distant galaxies, which appear to us in their most primitive stages, thanks to the vast light travel time involved. But for the period in between – a range extending from about 5 billion to 10 billion light-years away – they just didn't have enough data. This is the time when most of the stars in the universe were born.
Ultraviolet light comes from the hottest, most massive and youngest stars. By observing at these wavelengths, researchers get a direct look at which galaxies are forming stars and, just as importantly, where within those galaxies the stars are forming. ... The resulting image – made from 841 orbits of telescope viewing time – contains approximately 10,000 galaxies, extending back in time to within a few hundred million years of the big bang.
Ultraviolet observations of this sort require telescopes mounted in spacecraft, such as the Hubble telescope because the earths atmosphere filters out most of the light at these wavelengths.
This image is a composite assembled by computer programs of observations made between 2009-2012, over 841 orbits, and combining 13 stacked filtered images made with with the Wide Field Camera 3 called WFC3.
“It's the deepest panchromatic image of the sky ever made. It reaches the faintness of one firefly as seen from the distance of the moon,” says Rogier Windhorst, professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration in Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
To get an idea of just how deep in space this image is from please take a minute of time to watch the embedded YouTube at the bottom of this post which will "zoom in" from the night sky taking you to the region observed.
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Here's a link to YouTube if you can not see the embedded video below: Zoom and pan of Hubble's colourful view of the Universe
Zoom and pan of Hubble's colourful view of the Universe
And, Please take the poll of which of the below is your favorite space photo here. Sorry, I do not have identifiers on them, which I will do next time, or later, but I'm trying to finish this before a meeting and am running out of time. The numbers are below the pix.
59 Incredible Space Photos"
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