HUDF is the deepest image of the Universe ever taken

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is an image of a small region of space in the Fornax Constellation, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a 4 month period. It is the deepest image of the universe ever taken, looking back approximately 13 billion years (between 400 and 800 million years after the Big Bang), and it will be used to search for galaxies that existed at that time.

The HUDF image was taken in a segment of the sky with a low density of bright stars in the near-field, allowing much better viewing of faint, more distant objects. The image contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies.

Zoom in the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind.

The million-second-long exposure, called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, reveals the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called “dark ages”, the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark universe.

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