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PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC96-24a


DISTANT GALAXY IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUE IN HUBBLE FIELD 

Series of four panels that illustrate the distant-galaxy identification 
technique.  Four panels that show (top to bottom, or right to left when 
rotated correctly) F814W filter, F606W filter, F450W filter, and F300W filter 
images, or near-infrared through near-ultraviolet images.  The identified 
galaxy is prominent in the near-infrared image but totally absent in any of 
the other images.  It is this spectroscopic signature that identifies this 
galaxy as a very distant object.

Credit: Ken Lanzetta and Amos Yahil (State University of New York at Stony 
Brook), and NASA