(Photo Credit: NASA/ESA/Caltech/STScI/Arizona State University)
Composed during 841 orbits of telescope viewing time, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have assembled the most comprehensive and colourful picture of the evolving universe.
Approximately 10 000 galaxies, extending back to ones created within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang, are visible.
The image was taken as part of a study called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) project.
The patch of sky in this image has been studied previously in a series of visible and near-infrared exposures taken from 2004 to 2009 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field project
However with recent advancements, ultraviolet light was able to be captured and now the full range of colours available to the Hubble are detectable in this image.
This picture is among the most colorful deep space images ever taken by the 24-year-old telescope.
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