16 Years of Hubble Data In One Incredible Picture: The Hubble Legacy Field
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, and it’s been hard at work ever since, studying the cosmos like no other observatory in human history.
Several times in its journey, astronomers have called upon Hubble to study a single spot in the sky for weeks at a time, staring as far as it can, almost to the edge of the observable Universe.
These are the deep fields, including the most recent Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.
Now all of these data have been mashed together into a single image, spanning more than 250 days of observations.
It’s called the Hubble Legacy Field.
It’s full of galaxies.
Watch the video here:
Comments (3)
Hubble has got to be considered the greatest scientific instrument of all history.
Great video again Fraser! I can’t imagine astronomy without Hubble! In my personal opinion they have two options. 1. Service it. Although there are telescopes that are coming online over the next few years that can do better science. Or option 2. Bring it back to Earth because it deserves to be in a museum so people can visit it. I think just about everyone into astronomy, whether they are professional or amateur astronomers over the last 30 years, were inspired by images from Hubble.
I understand that the Spitzer Space telescope is in its last year of operation. How about an episode on its discoveries here, Open Space, WSH, or ACast?