Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 11:35 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. Results from Hubble's new infrared camera, the Wide Field Camera 3, on the Ultra Deep Field (taken in August 2009) are being presented on Jan. 5-6, 2010, at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C.

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