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[left] One of the deepest images to date of the universe, taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope href="https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/index.html">HST), reveals thousands of faint galaxies at the detection limit of present day telescopes.

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One of the deepest images to date of the universe, taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope href="https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/index.html">HST), reveals thousands of faint galaxies at the detection limit of present day telescopes. Peering across a large volume of the observable cosmos, Hubble resolves thousands of galaxies from five to twelve billion light-years away. The light from these remote objects has taken billions of years to cross the expanding universe, making these distant galaxies fossil evidence" of events that happened when the universe was one-third itspresent age.A fraction of the galaxies in this image belong to a cluster located nine billion light-years away. Though the field of view (at the cluster's distance) is only two million light-years across, it contains a multitude of fragmentary objects. (By comparison, the two millionlight-years between our Milky Way galaxy and its nearest large companion galaxy, in the constellation Andromeda, is essentially empty space!)
Date 6 December 1994 (upload date)
Source Distant cluster of galaxies
Author Mark Dickinson (STScI) and NASA/ESA

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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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