It is difficult to overestimate the impact that the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) image had on astronomy in the mid-1990s. Although astronomers had undertaken observations with similar goals prior to the release of the HDF, when it was new, it provided a wealth of data on galaxies that allowed astronomers to address a number of unsolved questions about the galaxies in the Universe. There is an excellent lab on the HDF available at Hubble's Amazing Space website, and that is the lab we are going to complete during Unit 3.
NOTE: You will be submitting this lab as a single document that is in either Microsoft Word (.doc) or PDF (.pdf) format so I can open it.
You will be downloading a PDF file from Hubblesite which contains the questions that I would like you to answer. You will only be answering a few of them though, so you should be able to copy and paste the questions from the PDF document into your own Word doc or other word processor of your choice.
NOTE: While you do need to complete the questions in the online lab as you progress, you only have to record your answers and submit the two questions from the Full HAL that are listed here. You are welcome to answer the others for your own benefit, if you like.
Links
[1] http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/hdf/
[2] http://deepfield.amazingspace.org/uploads/hal/fullset.pdf