Chandra Release - March 13, 2001

Visual Description: Chandra Deep Field South 

The one-million second image of the Chandra Deep Field South is a representation of the vastness and complexity of space. The image showcases an array of active galaxies and black holes. The colors in the image are predominantly shades of black, gray, and white, with occasional flashes of blue, red, and green. The intensities of the X-rays in this image are depicted, from lowest to highest energies, by red, yellow, and blue respectively.  The Chandra Deep Field-South is located in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Fornax, and was the deepest X-ray exposure ever achieved at the time of observation.