Deepest Image of Universe Yet Reveals Most Distant Galaxies Ever Found

The infrared image was taken in August 2009 in the same region as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), an area of the sky originally imaged in 2004, using Hubble’s newly installed Wide Field Camera 3. It required a total of more than 48 hours of exposure time to collect enough light to see “back in time” about 13 billion years—just 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang—to the earliest known galaxies...

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