Combining 2,000 images shot over the past 10 years, the Hubble Space Telescope's eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, captures more than 5,500 galaxies in tiny field of view, including some dating back to just 450 million years after the big bang.This image, called the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), combines Hubble observations taken over the past decade of a small patch of sky in the constellation of Fornax. With a total of over two million seconds of exposure time, it is the deepest image of the Universe ever made, combining data from previous images including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (taken in 2002 and 2003) and Hubble Ultra Deep Field Infrared (2009).
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image contains several of the most distant objects ever identified, making it the deepest image of the Universe ever taken. [Read more]
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