Via Sully we see the best pics of space from the Hubble, including this fucker which shows 5,500 galaxies.
The photo is a sequel to the original "Hubble Ultra Deep Field," a
picture the Hubble Space Telescope took in 2003 and 2004 that collected
light over many hours to reveal thousands of distant galaxies in what
was the deepest view of the universe so far. The XDF goes even farther,
peering back 13.2 billion years into the universe's past. The universe
is thought to be about 13.7 billion years old.
Fucking whack.
The most distant objects here are over 13 billion light years away,
and we see them when they were only 500 million years old. In case your
head is not asplodey from all this, I’ll note that the faintest objects
in this picture are at 31st magnitude: the faintest star you can see with your naked eye is ten billion times brighter.
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