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The Deepest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field

Posted by Unknown on from the do-the-dew dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers have unveiled what may be the deepest image of the Universe ever created: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field, a 2 million second exposure that reveals galaxies over 13 billion light years away. The faintest galaxies in the images are at magnitude 31, or one-ten-billionth as bright as the faintest object your naked eye can detect. Some are seen as they were when they were only 500 million years old."

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  1. Re:Hard to imagine the vastness by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, I officially feel small now.

    so..... can we have your liver, then?

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  2. Re:Hard to imagine the vastness by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

  3. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut up Plato, or we'll demote you to dwarf philosopher. Don't think we won't.