Topic: Hubble Takes a New "Deep Field" Image with Wide Field Camera 3

[sam]

Hubble's latest image is another stunner — and just look at all the galaxies! Hubble has produced a new version of the Ultra Deep Field, this time in near-infrared light and taken with the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3. This is the deepest image yet of the Universe in near-infrared, and so the faintest and reddest objects in the image are likely the oldest galaxies ever identified, and they likely formed only 600–900 million years after the Big Bang. This image was taken in the same region as the visible Ultra Deep Field in 2004, but this new deep view at longer wavelengths provides insights into how galaxies grew in their formative years early in the Universe's history.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/08/hubble-takes-a-new-deep-field-image-with-wide-field-camera-3/

[Clive]

How we love those images!