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"We are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral...
"We are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day". - CARL SAGAN
This new image by the Hubble Space Telescope is the most comprehensive view yet of the universe’s evolution as seen by a space telescope. It is a composite of separate exposures taken from 2003 to 2012. Astronomers previously studied the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) in visible and near-infrared light in a series of images captured from 2003 to 2009. Now using ultraviolet light (seen in blue), astronomers have combined the full range of colors available to Hubble, stretching all the way from ultraviolet to near-infrared light. The image contains approximately 10,000 galaxies, each containing billions of stars, extending back in time to within a few hundred million years of the big bang. http://1.usa.gov/1nbraPy
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI)
