<P align="center"><a href="http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/pr-23-02.html"><img src="http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot-28a-02-preview.jpg" border="0" alt="Click image for more information"></a> <P>An international team of astronomers has made the deepest-ever near-infrared Ks-band image of the sky, using the ISAAC multi-mode instrument on the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope. <P>For this, the VLT was pointed for more than 100 hours under optimal observing conditions at the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) and obtained images in three near-infrared filters. The resulting images reveal extremely distant galaxies, which appear at infrared wavelengths, but are barely detected in the deepest optical images acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
