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Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

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The deepest image of the Universe ever taken | Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed - BBC

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Hubble Legacy Field Zoom-Out

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AMAZING Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photograph

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Episode 4 - Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photograph

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Sonification of Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2014)

The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 10,000 galaxies. The original release was combined from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 24, 2003, through to January 16, 2004. Looking back approximately 13 billion years it has been used to search for galaxies that existed at that time. The HUDF image was taken in a section of the sky with a low density of bright stars in the near-field, allowing much better viewing of dimmer, more distant objects. In August and September 2009, the HUDF field was observed at longer wavelengths using the infrared channel of the recently attached Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. When combined with existing HUDF data, astronomers were able to identify a new list of potentially very distant galaxies.
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