The deepest image of the Universe ever taken
Starting from the lower right side, you'll see a galaxy very much like the the milky way, situated about five billion light-years away. This means we are looking back in time by five billion years. Moving even further back in time, about nine billion years into the past, you'll encounter a small group of galaxies, particularly two at the center, with odd shapes. These galaxies are irregular because they have not yet had the time to develop the beautiful stuctures we see today they are currently in the process of colliding, contributing to the formation of galaxies as we know them today.
Going deeper into the past, approximately 12.6 billion light-years back, a small red galaxy starts to emerge. This galaxy appears red because we are observing light from a galaxy the emmited this light when the universe was about ten percent of its present age. It does not resemble an ellipical or spiral galaxy instead, it represent a fragment of the universe that has not yet merged with other components to form the spiral and elliptical galaxies we see today.
Hubble's observation has gazed back

Comments
Post a Comment