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June 1st, 2011 by ps1scblog
The 63 brightest Galaxies in Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep field 4. Click to see the full resolution image.
This is the first in our series of Pan-STARRS Image of the Month. Every month we’ll be bringing you a stunning image for the Pan-STARRS1 telescope. These are created by PS1 scientists in their spare time just because they love producing these stunning vistas. Todays image comes to us courtesy of Nigel Metcalfe of the University of Durham. Well I say image, but for our first Pan-STARRS Image of the Month we’ve cheated and given you 63 of them as an extra bonus. These are the brightest galaxies from one of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep fields. These fields are surveyed nearly every night when they are visible to search for exploding stars called supernovae. However the images can also be stacked together to make a really deep map of the area of sky they cover. These gorgeous galaxies are from just one of the ten Medium Deep fields PS1 covers. You really have to see the full-sized image to appreciate it.
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The Pan-STARRS Project is being led by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, and exploits the unique combination of superb observing sites and technical and scientific expertise available in Hawaii. Funding for the development of the observing system has been provided by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory. The PS1 Surveys have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the PS1 Science Consortium or its member institutions.
