What is the Chandra Deep Field South?
Q: What is the Chandra Deep Field South?
A: The Chandra Deep Field South is an image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite.
Q: Why is the location of the Chandra Deep Field South important?
A: The location has a relatively clear "window" through the clouds of neutral hydrogen gas in our Milky Way galaxy, allowing us to clearly see the rest of the universe in X-rays.
Q: Where is the Chandra Deep Field South located?
A: The Chandra Deep Field South is centered on a patch of sky in the Southern Hemisphere Fornax constellation.
Q: Why was the Fornax constellation selected for the Chandra Deep Field South observations?
A: The Fornax constellation was selected because it has much less galactic gas and dust to obscure distant sources.
Q: When were the observations for the Chandra Deep Field South taken?
A: More observations were taken between 2000 and 2010.
Q: How long has Chandra observed the Chandra Deep Field South?
A: The Chandra Deep Field South is the single target where Chandra has observed the longest.
Q: What does the Chandra Deep Field South allow us to see?
A: The Chandra Deep Field South allows us to clearly see the rest of the universe in X-rays.
