Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Hubble's deepest view...

of the universe unveils never before seen galaxies (click on image for full resolution version). This new image was acquired in late August 2009 by the Wide Field Camera 3 on the recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in the same region of space as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 2004.

Amazing bit: the cumulative exposure time for this image is 173,000 seconds over a four day period of time. And this:
"The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the Big Bang."

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