Press Releases 2006

ESO PR Photo 14a/06

The Deep 3 'Empty' Field

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Zoom-in on the image HERE!.

Colour image of the Deep 3 'empty' field observed with the Wide-Field Camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at La Silla. The image is the combination of 714 frames for a total exposure time of 64.5 hours obtained through four different filters (B, V, R, and I). It consists of four adjacent Wide-Field Camera pointings (each 33x34 arcmin), covering a total area larger than one square degree.The original image - whose resolution is conserved in the zoom-in version and in PR Photo 14b/06 and 14c/06 - consists of about 300 million pixels. It had to be downscaled to be of reasonable size for the Internet. North is up and East is to the left.

ESO PR Photo 14b/06

Galaxy ESO 570-19 and Variable Star UW Crateris

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Part of the Deep 3 Deep Public Survey field, showing the brightest galaxy in the field ESO 570-19 (upper left) and the brightest star UW Crateris. This red giant (upper right) is a variable star that is about 8 times fainter than what the unaided eye can see. An 'S'-shaped ensemble of galaxies is also visible in the lower part of the picture. Imagine: all these island universes are about the same size as our Milky Way and contain billion of stars!

ESO PR Photo 14c/06

The DPS Deep 3 Field (Detail)

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Detail of a portion of the Deep 3 field, showing the large variety of shapes and colours of the very numerous galaxies present in the image. The amount of details of the original image is such that this small portion can still be shown in very high resolution.