Piecing together 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers on Tuesday unveiled the deepest ever view of a small sliver of the night sky, which showed old galaxies with over 5500 newer ones.
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.
The most distant objects found date back to about 500 million years after the universe's formation some 13.7 billion years ago.
Spiral Galaxies in electric blue indicative of the temperature and the young formation stage of the stars riddled with fuzzy red stars older stars which have been completely formed and were cooling down have been captured in this XDF.
More than 2,000 images of the same field snapped by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and its near-infrared Wide Field Camera 3, were overlapped to form the XDF.
"XDF is the deepest image of the sky ever obtained," astronomer Garth Illingworth, with the University of California at Santa Cruz, said in a statement. "It allows us to explore further back in time than ever before.
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