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On January 15, 1996, NASA released to the public one of the most extraordinary astronomical images of all time. The Hubble Deep Field (Fig. 7.1), a composite of 342 separate WFPC2 exposures taken from December 18–28, 1995, covered an area of the sky of only 2.5 arc-minutes, and is located in a nearly featureless area in Ursa Major (Fig. 7.2).
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Chen, J.L., Chen, A. (2015). The Hubble Deep Field, Ultra-Deep Field, and eXtreme Deep Field. In: A Guide to Hubble Space Telescope Objects. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18872-0_7
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