Hubble Reveals More Galaxies

10:52 AM, Sep 26, 2012   |    comments
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It's the universe like you've never seen it before.

NASA combined ten years of Hubble Space Telescope pictures to create a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.

The Extreme Deep Field, or XDF, is a combination of photos taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble ultra deep field.

The XDF contains around 5,500 galaxies, the faintest of which are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.

It's even more more sensitive than the Hubble ultra deep field.

That's an image of a small area of space in the constellation fornax created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004.