The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, adds another 5,500 galaxies to Hubble’s 2003 and 2004 view into a tiny patch of the farthest universe.
Hubble returned to the same target more than 50 times over the past decade, racking up an additional 2 million seconds of exposure time. The most distant objects found date back to about 500 million years after the universe’s formation some 13.7 billion years ago.
This is absolutely facinating, Hubble concentrated on the same spot where it took the scan for Hubble Ultra Deep Field 50 times over the last decade. This view has 5,500 galaxies and looks back 13.2 Billion years in time. Mind bottling to say the least. And to to think each of those galaxies has millions of stars and planets in it, how can there not be life out there?
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This is absolutely facinating, Hubble concentrated on the same spot where it took the scan for Hubble Ultra Deep Field 50 times over the last decade. This view has 5,500 galaxies and looks back 13.2 Billion years in time. Mind bottling to say the least. And to to think each of those galaxies has millions of stars and planets in it, how can there not be life out there?
There is no doubt as to whether there is life or not.
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"There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe."
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This makes me think of the Total Perspective Vortex from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - showing the vastness of the universe with a tiny little microscopic point labelled "you are here".
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field photograph
