The NTT SUSI Deep Field
Explanation:
What happens if you point a large telescope at nothing?
The above
New Technology Telescope SUSI
Deep Field photograph isolated a small patch of
sky picked to contain no bright objects at all.
A very long exposure was then taken, similar to the
Hubble Deep Field,
in order to see the many faint objects that are usually
washed out by the light of
bright foreground objects.
What remains is a cosmic wallpaper rich in
distant galaxies.
Galaxies as faint as
magnitude 26 were found to be irregularly distributed,
with several unusual pairings of different colored objects.
This and
other deep field images are being
released for detailed inspection by anyone interested.
New deep field images are being planned.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
