Early Release Science from Hubble WFC3 at AAS Conference

The image above is a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows a mosaic of a portion of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) South Field nearly 1/3 the size of the full moon taken in September and October of 2009. It combines data taken in 10 filters that span the infrared to near ultraviolet. It made use of the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 (WCF3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The survey used 100 Hubble orbits for images from the ACS and 104 for the WCF3 images. Galaxies in the image are as faint as 26.5th to 27th magnitude which is several thousand times fainter than can be viewed with the naked eye and shows 7,500 galaxies.

Some of the first science results from this image were discussed this morning at the AAS conference in Washington.(...)
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