Hubble Provides Deep New Look into the Universe

More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. This image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was made from mosaics taken in September and October 2009 with the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and in 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The view covers a portion of the southern field of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), a deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the evolution of galaxies.

The final image combines a broad range of colors, from the ultraviolet, through visible light, and into the near-infrared. Such a detailed multi-color view of the universe has never before been assembled in such a combination of color, clarity, accuracy, and depth

The goods indeed. Wow. Just wow.

Posted by marindenver on 01/05/10 at 06:37 PM • Permalink

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Thanks, Mar. That puts our silly human politics into perspective.

Comment by Oblomova on 01/05/10 at 06:58 PM

Yeah, thanks a LOT, mar. I was so excited when I viciously bumped Betty Cracker’s latest post for my Palin rant, I forgot that karma’s a bitch.

GORGEOUS pics! Thanks…and ditto on oblomova. There’s nothing like a million light-years in every direction to improve one’s sense of scale.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 01/05/10 at 07:12 PM

What really blows my mind is that we’re literally looking at the past, given the distances involved.

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Comment by Jason on 01/05/10 at 11:54 PM

Great stuff! Thanks for posting this.

Comment by G on 01/06/10 at 12:55 AM

Such a detailed multi-color view of the universe has never before been assembled in such a combination of color, clarity, accuracy, and depth

…so it’s sort of the Jonah “never before in such detail or with such care” Goldberg of heavenly bodies? (Sorry)

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Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 01/06/10 at 10:10 AM

What really blows my mind is that we’re literally looking at the past, given the distances involved.

Yes. An AP article on the pictures said they see back almost literally to the Big Bang - back to when the universe was about 600 million years old (considering it’s something like 12 billion years old now that was relatively very young.)