19/04/2023
Between 2003 and 2004, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spent more than 11 days taking what would become known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a view of nearly 10,000 galaxies. In 2022, Webb took less than 24 hours to observe that same target in high-resolution.
Why are we revisiting this field? We don’t exactly know how galaxies became how they are today. With its sensitivity, Webb is helping astronomers hunt for the first galaxies and better understand star formation and other galactic properties in the early universe.
In addition, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field has long been studied by a variety of telescopes. Webb’s new data complements previous data sets by providing detailed information for just about all the galaxies in this field, providing scientists with new puzzle pieces they did not have before.
Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/43jFsr4
Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Christina Williams (NSF's NoirLab), with image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI)