Hubble's Deepest-Ever View of the Universe to be Unveiled on March 9
Several hundred orbits of NASA Hubble Space Telescope time have been allocated to making the deepest-ever view of the visible universe. This Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is equivalent to a one-million-second-long photographic exposure and will be unveiled at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. on Tues., March 9, 2004.
This historic image is expected to take astronomers to 'within a stone's throw' of the the big bang itself, unveiling the first galaxies that emerged from the end of the cosmological "dark ages" shortly after the big bang, or when the universe was about 5 percent of its present age.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field as observed with Hubble's two premier cameras, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), will be unveiled to the news media and public on March 9, 2004 during a live webcast starting at 9:00 am (EST) 15:00 CET at:
Live Webcam
more info on Hubble Homepage
Sir Ulli
Several hundred orbits of NASA Hubble Space Telescope time have been allocated to making the deepest-ever view of the visible universe. This Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is equivalent to a one-million-second-long photographic exposure and will be unveiled at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. on Tues., March 9, 2004.
This historic image is expected to take astronomers to 'within a stone's throw' of the the big bang itself, unveiling the first galaxies that emerged from the end of the cosmological "dark ages" shortly after the big bang, or when the universe was about 5 percent of its present age.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field as observed with Hubble's two premier cameras, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), will be unveiled to the news media and public on March 9, 2004 during a live webcast starting at 9:00 am (EST) 15:00 CET at:
Live Webcam
more info on Hubble Homepage
Sir Ulli