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PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR04-07


HUBBLE'S DEEPEST VIEW EVER OF THE UNIVERSE UNVEILS EARLIEST GALAXIES

Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled
the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by
humankind. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the
million-second-long exposure 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. The new
image should offer new insights into what types of objects
reheated the universe long ago.
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Does anyone have any thoughts on the image yet? As always it melts my brain
to look at so much in one FOV. One thing, I found interesting was not so
much the diversity of objects, but that there seem so be some very similar.
The "golden" orbs for one. There seems to be 5 or 6 that are nearly
identical. The spiral galaxy near the bottom right edge is amazing as well.

BV.

BV, I read somewhere that the area covered by this image, in the sky,
is the equivalent of looking through a soda straw 8' long. If true,
that is amazing; considering all that is there in the photo. DR