Hubble Peers Back To Cosmic Dawn To Take Census Of Earliest Galaxies
Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 This new image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 campaign reveals a previously unseen population of seven faraway galaxies, which are observed as they appeared in a period 350 million to 600 million years after the Big Bang. Click here to make it really big. NASA, ESA, R. Ellis (Caltech), and the UDF 2012 TeamThe deepest images taken to date show the universe when it was only 3 percent of the age it is now. Ever since the Hubble Space Telescope's final upgrade, astronomers have been able to push it farther and farther in look-back time--that's a technical term--to the infancy of the universe. Now they have seen the deepest views yet, and found a previously unseen group of primitive galaxies that formed when the universe was just 3 percent of its present age. This is important because it provides clues about the abundance of the...