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Hubble Deep Field

(HDF, HDF-N, Hubble Deep Field North)
(highly-detailed image of a small region of the sky taken with HST)

The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region of the sky (a survey field, within the constellation Ursa Major) taken over a very long exposure, using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), aiming to image as distant galaxies as possible.

The HDF was an experiment and not everyone anticipated it would be worth HST's valuable time, but its data did support much useful scientific study. Part of this study included observation of the same region at other wavelengths so as to associate other signal with the HDF visual images. With the HDF's value established, similar efforts have been carried out (some with the HST and some with other telescopes) for other portions of the sky, including the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) in 1998, the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) in 2003/2004, and the Hubble Extreme Deep Field in 2012.


(survey,galaxies,survey field)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/ssc2007-15a1-hubble-ultra-deep-field
http://astro.wku.edu/astr106/structure/deepfield.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996swhs.conf...33W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998RvMA...11...83F/abstract
https://www.nasa.gov/content/discoveries-hubbles-deep-fields
https://esahubble.org/science/deep_fields/
Coordinates:HDF
J123649.4000+621258.000
PrefixExample  
HDFHDF 850.1 

Referenced by pages:
Chandra Deep Field North (CDFN)
Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS)
deep field (DF)
DEEP2
GISMO
GOODS-North
Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S)
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF)
Molecular Deep Field

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