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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Collection
Title:
NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/], ESA [ http://www.spacetel…], and A. Feild (STScI [ http://www.stsci.ed…])
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About the Object Object Description: Distant Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Position (J2000): R.A. 3h 32m 40s.0
Dec. -27° 48' 00" Constellation: Fornax About the Data Data Description:

The science team for this release is: R. Bouwens and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), J. Blakeslee (Washington State University), and M. Franx (Leiden Observatory).

This image was created from HST data from the following proposal: 9978: HUDF Team (STScI). The science teams are:

* A.J. Bunker (Univ.of Exeter U.K./ Inst. of Astrophysics, Univ. of Cambridge, U.K.), E.R. Stanway (Inst. of Astrophysics, Univ. of Cambridge, U.K.), R.S. Ellis (California Inst. of Tech.), and R.G. McMahon (Inst. of Astrophysics, Univ. of Cambridge, U.K.) * H. Yan (Spitzer Science Center, California Inst. of Tech.) and R.A. Windhorst (Arizona State Univ.) * M. Stiavelli, S.M. Fall, and N. Panagia (STScI) * R.J. Bouwens and G.D. Illingworth (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), R.I. Thompson (Steward Obs./Univ. of Arizona), J.P. Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins Univ.), M.E. Dickinson (National Optical Astronomy Obs.), T.J. Broadhurst (The Hebrew Univ., Israel), D.J. Eisenstein and X. Fan (Steward Obs./Univ. of Arizona), M. Franx (Leiden Observatory, Netherlands), G. Meurer (Johns Hopkins Univ.), and P. van Dokkum (Yale Univ.) * S. Malhotra, J.E. Rhoads, N. Pirzkal and C. Xu (Space Telescope Science Inst.)



Instrument: ACS/WFC Exposure Date(s): September 24, 2003 - January 16, 2004 Exposure Time: 11.3 days Filters: F435W ("B"), F606W ("V"), F775W ("i"), F850LP ("z") About the Image Image Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Bouwens and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) Release Date: March 28, 2006 Orientation: Distant Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field [ http://imgsrc.hubbl…]
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*Image Type:*: Illustration
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*Release Date*:September 21, 2006 10:00 AM (EDT)
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-2006-12d
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*Title*:NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe
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*Description*:

Sampling galaxies through time and space.
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Release Date:
September 21, 2006 10:00 AM (EDT)

NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe