November 2008
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Forty hours for a picture of some stars? It better...
And it is.
The Chandra Deep Field South, observed in the U-, B-, and R-bands with ESO’s VIMOS and WFI instruments. The U-band VIMOS observations were made over a period of 40 hours and constitute the deepest image ever taken from the ground in the U-band. The image covers a region of 14.1 x 21.6 arcmin on the sky and shows galaxies that are 1 billion times fainter than can be seen by...