{"id":122549,"date":"2025-08-06T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122549\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:12:13","slug":"webb-captures-historic-new-version-of-hubbles-legendary-deep-field-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122549\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb Captures Historic New Version of Hubble’s Legendary Deep Field Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field<\/a> is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly 10,000 galaxies of diverse ages, sizes, shapes, and colors in a single frame. The James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> (JWST) revisited the same region of the sky, capturing its longest exposure of an extragalactic field with a single filter yet and revealing one of the deepest views ever of the ancient Universe. <\/p>\n

The captured field, known as the MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS) region, was observed using three of the shortest-wavelength filters available on Webb\u2019s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) for almost 100 total hours. The captured information was combined with data collected by Webb\u2019s other primary imager, the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). By combining the data, astronomers and astrophysicists can study how galaxies formed and changed over billions of years, as the European Space Agency (ESA) explains<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"AThis image from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope looks at a region of the sky previously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope for its famous Hubble Ultra Deep Field. | Credit: ESA\/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. \u00d6stlin, P. G. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Melinder, the JADES Collaboration, the MIDIS collaboration, M. Zamani (ESA\/Webb) <\/p>\n

Webb\u2019s view of the MIDIS region is narrower than Hubble\u2019s original Ultra Deep Field. However, thanks to Webb\u2019s extreme sensitivity, its deep observations managed to reveal more than 2,500 light sources, including \u201chundreds of extremely red galaxies.\u201d <\/p>\n

An \u201cextremely red galaxy\u201d in this instance is a dust-obscured system or galaxy with \u201cmature stars that formed early in the Universe\u2019s history.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to Webb\u2019s sharp resolution, even at mid-infrared wavelengths, researchers can resolve the structures of many of these galaxies and study how their light is distributed, shedding light on their growth and evolution,\u201d ESA explains. <\/p>\n

\"AThis image shows a portion of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field that matches the region of sky recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. The original version<\/a> of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field shows a much larger area of the sky and was, at the time of its release in 2012, the deepest ever view of the Universe. | Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team <\/p>\n

Expert image processors have assigned different kinds of infrared light with various colors, helping viewers understand more about each galaxy in the image. The orange and red galaxies were captured at the longest mid-infrared wavelengths. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe galaxies in these colors have extra features \u2014 such as high concentrations of dust, copious star formation, or an active galactic nucleus (AGN) at their center \u2014 which emit more of this farther infrared light,\u201d ESA writes. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the small greenish-white galaxies seen in Webb\u2019s new image are actually the most distant. Although these extremely distant objects exhibit a high redshift, they are not shown as red in this new image. Their light spectra peak in mid-infrared wavelengths, \u201cwhich are depicted in white and green.\u201d <\/p>\n

The majority of the galaxies in Webb\u2019s new image lack any feature that boosts their mid-infrared emission, so they are brightest at shorter near-infrared wavelengths. These are shown as blue and cyan in the image.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBy returning to this legacy field first made famous by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Webb is continuing and expanding the deep field tradition \u2014 revealing new details, uncovering previously hidden galaxies, and offering fresh insights into the formation of the first cosmic structures,\u201d ESA concludes. <\/p>\n

Image credits:<\/strong> ESA\/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. \u00d6stlin, P. G. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Melinder, the JADES Collaboration, the MIDIS collaboration, M. Zamani (ESA\/Webb). Hubble Ultra Deep Field credits: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team. <\/p>\n

The new JWST research of the MIDIS region is detailed in the research paper \u2018MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS) of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field<\/a>\u2018 by G\u00f6ran \u00d6stlin et. al., published in \u2018Astronomy and Astrophysics.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4514,28891,75835,26987,75836,61620,26989,25024,159,783,67,132,68,26995],"class_list":{"0":"post-122549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-astronomy","9":"tag-astrophysics","10":"tag-deepfield","11":"tag-hubble","12":"tag-hubbledeepfield","13":"tag-hubblespacetelescope","14":"tag-jameswebbspacetelescope","15":"tag-jwst","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-webb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114979638190864555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}