Thursday, August 4, 2022

CEERS Collaboration Wide/Deep Field Mosaic

A color image of a deep field of galaxies. Six zoom-ins show spiral galaxies with visible star clusters, and interacting galaxies.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CEERS

Cropped section of the CEERS Deep Field
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CEERS

CEERS mosaic of 690 individual frames that took about 24 hours to collect using the telescope's main imager, called the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This new image covers an area of the sky about eight times as large as Webb's First Deep Field image, although it is not quite as deep.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CEERS