Deep space
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field
Deep-field image
10,000 galaxies in a speck of sky
Hubble stared at a tiny, seemingly empty patch of Fornax for over 11 days, revealing about 10,000 galaxies — some seen as they were less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
In your sky
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Key facts
Distance
Galaxies up to ~13 billion light-years (light-travel time)
Sky area
~1/13,000,000 of the sky
Galaxies
~10,000
Released
2004
Did you know
- The patch is smaller than a grain of sand held at arm's length.
- JWST pushed even deeper with its JADES survey.
- Almost every point of light in it is a galaxy.
