Nov 23 1998
From The Space Library
NASA released results from the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) to the worldwide astronomy community for research, as well as to the public. HDF-S was a 10-day observation that had taken place in October 1998. With all of its new cameras and other instruments trained simultaneously down the same 12 billion-light-year-long "corridor," the team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center had captured a "core sample" of the universe, doubling the number of far-flung galaxies available for astronomers to study. The astronomers had studied a region in the constellation Tucana, near the south celestial pole, complementing a previous deep-field study carried out in late 1995, when scientists aimed the HST at a "small patch of space near the Big Dipper."
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