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=== Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey ===
In an August 2013 press release, [[CANDELS]] was referred to as "the largest project in the history of Hubble". The survey "aims to explore galactic evolution in the early Universe, and the first seeds of cosmic structure at less than one billion years after the Big Bang."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1315/#3 |title=Hubble explores the origins of modern galaxies |work=SpaceTelescope.org |id=heic1315 |date=August 15, 2013 |access-date=October 4, 2013 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124011402/https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1315/#3 |url-status=live }}</ref> The CANDELS project site describes the survey's goals as the following:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://candels.ucolick.org/survey/Survey_Desc.html |title=Survey Description |work=CANDELS |via=UCOLick.org |access-date=October 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020092530/http://candels.ucolick.org/survey/Survey_Desc.html |archive-date=October 20, 2013}}</ref>

<blockquote>The Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey is designed to document the first third of galactic evolution from z = 8 to 1.5 via deep imaging of more than 250,000 galaxies with WFC3/IR and ACS. It will also find the first Type Ia SNe beyond z > 1.5 and establish their accuracy as standard candles for cosmology. Five premier multi-wavelength sky regions are selected; each has multi-wavelength data from Spitzer and other facilities, and has extensive spectroscopy of the brighter galaxies. The use of five widely separated fields mitigates cosmic variance and yields statistically robust and complete samples of galaxies down to 10<sup>9</sup> solar masses out to z ~ 8.</blockquote>