Hubble's Most Distant View (2009) [720p]

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the Big Bang. No galaxies have been seen before at such early times. The new deep view, taken in late August 2009, also provides insights into how galaxies grew in their formative years early in the universe's history. The image was taken in the same region as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), which was taken in 2004 and is the deepest visible-light image of the universe. Hubble's newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) collects light from near-infrared wavelengths and therefore looks even deeper into the universe, because the light from very distant galaxies is stretched out of the ultraviolet and visible regions of the spectrum into near-infrared wavelengths by the expansion of the universe.

credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon and M. Estacion (STScI)

source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0916a/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hubble Space Telescope
• NASA
• ESA
• Hubble Deep Field
• cosmology
• galaxies
• universe

[Michalgsxr]

It's a lie

[djxatlanta]

@Michalgsxr - At the time this image was released (2009), it was the deepest field image taken by Hubble -- and probably the furthest back we will see until the James Webb Space Telescope is launched (at which time, we will be able to see further back to the origins of the universe to 400 million years after its beginning).

[theshowstoppah]

The universe is truly amazing.

[wulfilde1]

the stars and the universe are amazing