MUSE Dives into the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Astronomers have used ESO's MUSE instrument on the VLT in Chile to make the deepest spectroscopic survey ever.
They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, capturing light from 1600 galaxies — 72 of which had never been seen before.
MUSE can do something that Hubble can't. It splits up the light from every point in an image to create a spectrum...
...allowing astronomers to measure the distance, colours and other properties of galaxies — including some that are even invisible to Hubble itself!
This survey adds a trove of new data about these galaxies, telling us about star formation and galaxy evolution in the early Universe.
Many telescopes have investigated the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and together teach us about the richness of the young Universe.
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