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Comparison of how far in the past some of the Hubble Space Telescope's deep fields have seen in terms of redshift and million years and also how far the James Webb Space Telescope should be able to see.

In astronomy, a deep field is an image of a portion of the sky taken with a very long exposure time, in order to detect and study faint objects. The depth of the field refers to the apparent magnitude or the flux of the faintest objects that can be detected in the image. Deep field observations usually cover a small angular area on the sky, because of the large amounts of telescope time required to reach faint flux limits. Deep fields are used primarily to study galaxy evolution and the cosmic evolution of active galactic nuclei, and to detect faint objects at high redshift. Numerous ground-based and space-based observatories have taken deep-field observations at wavelengths spanning radio to X-rays.

The first deep-field image to receive a great deal of public attention was the Hubble Deep Field, observed in 1995 with the WFPC2 camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Other space telescopes that have obtained deep-field observations include the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the XMM-Newton Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope.

Left: image taken by Hubble (2017) vs Right: the image taken by Webb (2022)

Deep Field – Galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327

Table

The following table gives a partial list of deep-field observations taken since 1995.

Name	Year captured	Size (arcminute)	Number of exposures
Hubble Deep Field	1995	2.6′x2.6′	342
Hubble Deep Field South	1998	5.3²′	995
Chandra Deep Field South	1999–2000	16′ across	11
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field	2003–2004	2.4′x2.4′	808
Extended Groth Strip	2004–2005	70′x10′	over 500
Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS)	2011
ESO's VLT and the SINFONI instrument	2012
Hubble eXtreme Deep Field	2012	2.3′x3′
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UV/VIS/NIR)	2014
Hubble Frontier Fields MACS J0416.1-2403	2015
Hubble Frontier Fields Abell 2744	2015
Hubble Frontier Fields MACS J0717.5+3745	2015
Hubble Frontier Fields MACS J1149.5+2223	2015
Hubble Frontier Fields Abell S1063	2016
Hubble Frontier Fields Abell 370	2017
Hubble Frontier Fields Abell 370 parallel field	2017
Hubble Deep UV (HDUV) Legacy Survey	2018
Hubble Legacy Field	2019	25′x25′	7,500
Dark Energy Survey	2021	18.41′x9.64′
Webb's First Deep Field	2022	2.4′ across
James Webb Space Telescope – JADES (James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey) First Deep Field	2022	4-6′×12′ approx; (4′×6′ and 6′×6′ subsets adjacent)
James Webb Space Telescope – JADES (James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey)	2024	??′ across

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