Hubble unveils a deep sea of small and faint early galaxies
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 15:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the long-suspected underlying population of galaxies that produced the bulk of new stars during the universe's early years. They are the smallest, faintest, and most numerous galaxies ever seen in the remote universe, captured by Hubble deep exposures taken in ultraviolet light.