Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colours, will enjoy the latest image released by ESO. Obtained in part with the Very Large Telescope, the image is the deepest ground-based U-band image of the Universe ever obtained. It contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the VIMOS instrument.
Deep ultraviolet. Is that what YOU call it? :P
The coolest thing about this: the size of the image is 14.1 x 26.1 arcminutes according to ESO website. For reference, the moon is about 30 arcminutes. If my math is right, this means that the area surveyed by this picture is approximately 1/500000th of the sky.
Way cool,made it my desktop background....
Thanks Greg !
I too made it my background. :)
oo yes underground :)