Hubble Ultra Deep Field
NASA / ESA / STScI, 2004
Deeper than the first dark, and the dark was still full. Galaxies packed into a patch that used to be blank. Almost none of the lights are stars. We are late to every one of them.
About this work
The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 10,000 galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope collected the data between September 3, 2003 and January 16, 2004, and the first version of the image was released on March 9, 2004. The patch of sky was chosen because it has few bright nearby stars, which allows a much better view of dimmer, more distant objects. It is tiny: 2.4 arcminutes on a side, about one-tenth of the diameter of the full Moon as seen from Earth, or smaller than a square millimetre of paper held a metre away. Yet it includes light from galaxies that existed about 13 billion years ago, when the universe was young.
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- 3,100 × 3,100 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 20 × 20 in
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- Small (20 × 20 in) · $100 · 155 ppi
Medium (24 × 24 in) · $150 · 129 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
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