Hubble Ultra Deep Field
2014
From NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
Galaxies like colorful pieces
of candy fill the Hubble
Ultra Deep Field 2014. The dimmest galaxies are more than 10 billion
times fainter than stars visible to the unaided eye and represent the Universe in the extreme
past, a few 100 million years after the Big Bang.
The
image itself was made with the significant addition of ultraviolet
data to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, an update of Hubble's famous most distant
gaze toward the southern constellation of Fornax.
It now covers the entire
range of wavelengths available to Hubble's cameras, from ultraviolet through
visible to near-infrared.
Ultraviolet data adds
the crucial capability of studying star formation in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
galaxies between 5 and 10 billion light-years distant.
