Location and size of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (ground-based image)
This image from the Digitzed Sky Survey shows the area around the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), located in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace). The full Moon is shown to scale for comparison. Note that the Moon does not actually pass through Fornax.
Credit:NASA, ESA, Z. Levay (STScI), T. Rector, I. Dell'Antonio/NOAO/AURA/NSF, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University) and the HUDF09 Team
About the Image
| Id: | heic1214d |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 25 September 2012, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1214 |
| Size: | 4000 x 4000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Hubble Ultra Deep Field |
| Type: | Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field |
| Category: | Cosmology |
