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Subject: Hubble Goes to the eXtreme Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:27 pm
Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the Universe
I think we are privileged to see this in our life time.
The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.
The history of galaxies -- from soon after the first galaxies were born to the great galaxies of today, like our Milky Way -- is laid out in this one remarkable image.