January 2, 2010

Something Wonderful: Deeper

"In August,

after the last repair mission on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers directed its newest camera towards the same area of sky where just five years ago, the first Hubble Ultra Deep field image was made and recorded a new one - this time in the near-infrared, a wavelength invisible to the human eye.
"Over the course of four days, the camera shutter was open for one hundred seventy three thousand seconds and astronomers collected photons that had left their galaxies over 13 billion years ago. Sensitive to slightly longer wavelengths than its predecessors, the newly installed camera known as Wide Field Camera three recorded objects that are likely the oldest galaxies ever identified, having formed only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Here are the results."

Made by Darnell, The Redneck Astronomer at Deep Astronomy, who says of himself: ā€œIā€™m a computer programming redneck astronomer-inventor who plays Irish music, reads science fiction and loves to fish.ā€

And how to keep looking up.

Posted by Vanderleun at January 2, 2010 8:37 AM
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Happy New Year, dude.

Posted by: dr kill at January 2, 2010 10:00 AM