An Image of a Small Section (0.4 Perent) of the UDS Field (IMAGE)

University of Nottingham

An Image of a Small Section (0.4 Perent) of the UDS Field

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An image of a small section (0.4 percent) of the UDS field. Most of the objects in the image are very distant galaxies, observed as they were over 9 billion years ago. In the full image, 250,000 galaxies have been detected over an area of sky four times the size of the full moon.

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Please credit: Omar Almaini, University of Nottingham.

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