Hubble Assembles Farthest Ever View of the Universe Called eXtreme Deep Field

Posted on September 25, 2012

Hubble has assembled the farthest ever view of the Universe. The portrait - assembled by astronomers using 10 years of Hubble photographs - is called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF.

Hubblesite.org says the XDF contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.

A large zoomable version of the image can be found here. Take a look:

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