The Universe, But 13 Billion Years Ago
Split over four hundred orbits, with one million seconds of total exposure time, the Hubble Space Telescope took pictures of a tiny, tiny piece of our sky. The result? The Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
If you click through the Wikipedia link, you can get to an image that is 6,000x6,000, containing over 10,000 galaxies. Some of those galaxies, the furthest away, are 13 billion light years out—which means that the light the Hubble gathered was emitted from the galaxies briefly after the Big Bang.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 09, 2010