Our Deepest View Of The Universe Just Got Deeper!

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 23:21 in Astronomy & Space

This image of a tiny patch of sky reveals the oldest galaxies ever seen. Their light has traveled 13 billion years to the Hubble Space Telescope, stretched along the way from ultraviolet to near-infrared by the expanding universe. After this long wait, astronomers wasted no time, publishing 12 papers on the data in 3 months.  The beautiful color images were just released yesterday: read more

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