Advanced Camera For Surveys Tapestries

Starbirth region NGC 3324. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the edge of a nebula in the starbirth region NGC 3324. This is a region where nebulae (dust and gas clouds) glow under the impact of radiation from newly formed stars. The colours indicate three chemical elements: red shows emission from sulphur, green from hydrogen, and blue from oxygen. NGC 3324 is located in the constellation of Carina and is around 7200 light years from Earth. The area seen here is around 13.4 light years across. This image was obtained in 2006 and 2008, using HST's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).

Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Obtained in 2003 and 2004, this view shows distant galaxies in an area of the constellation Fornax, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The view shows nearly 10,000 galaxies in what is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The galaxies are of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours. The smallest, reddest galaxies may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies (brighter spirals and ellipticals) are from about 1 billion years ago, when the universe was 13 billion years old. This image consists of 800 exposures taken over 11 days, between September 2003 and January 2004. Image data in optical and infrared, from the HST's Advanced Camera fo...

Hubble Ultra Deep Field, ultraviolet coverage. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field was first obtained in 2003 and 2004, and has been extended over the years with the addition of coverage in other wavelengths such an infrared. This image includes new coverage in ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths. The area shown (in the constellation of Fornax) includes 5500 galaxies, some of them among the most distant known, existing when the universe was only a few hundred million years old. Some are the most distant objects ever identified. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) project. Image data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)'s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Image publi...

Hubble eXtreme Deep Field. Optical and infrared image of distant galaxies in an area of the constellation Fornax, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This combines data from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and Hubble Ultra Deep Field Infrared. The area includes 5500 galaxies, some of them among the most distant known, existing when the universe was only a few hundred million years old. Some are the most distant objects ever identified. Image data from the HST's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Image published in 2012.

Starbirth region NGC 602, Hubble Space Telescope image. A cluster of bright, newly formed stars (blue) are blowing a cavity in the centre of a nebula (gas and dust), which is glowing under the impact of the stellar radiation. This starbirth region is 196,000 light years from Earth, in the Small Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation Tucana. This image was obtained with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument. The results were published in January 2007.

Starbirth region LH 95, Hubble Space Telescope image. Large stars within LH 95 generate strong stellar winds and high levels of ultraviolet radiation. This heats the interstellar gas, creating the blue glow seen here. The dark lanes of dust (left and lower centre) are areas that have survived the effects of the stellar winds. Due to the filters used, the hot, bright stars in this image are blue, and cooler stars appear red in colour. LH 95 is in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), some 176,000 light years from Earth in the constellations Mensa and Dorado. Image data obtained by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument, and published in 2006.