COSMOS Field (IMAGE)

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

COSMOS Field

Caption

This is a color composite image in the g, r and i bands of a small piece of the COSMOS field, as imaged by the Hyper Suprime-Cam. This image contains thousands of galaxies as faint as 27th magnitude. The galaxies are seen at such large distances that the light from them has taken billions of years to reach us. The light from the faintest galaxies was emitted when the universe was less than 10% of its present age.

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Princeton University/HSC Project

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