Dondante
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2005
- Messages
- 1,638
^To be more precise, the image reveals approximately 5,500 galaxies lying within a relatively small field of view just a "small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon." Equally mindblowing, the light from the most distant galaxies is roughly 13.2 billion years old.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html