Scientific Image· Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
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A black field densely filled with thousands of galaxies of every size, colour, and shape.
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Caption: The Hubble Ultra Deep Field — around ten thousand galaxies in a patch of sky a tenth the width of the full Moon.
Scientific context
A composite of hundreds of exposures totalling around a million seconds, revealing some of the most distant galaxies ever seen at the time — light from the early universe.
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- STScISpace Telescope Science Institute
Science operations and public image archives for the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes (MAST, HubbleSite, webbtelescope.org).
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