Hubble Space Telescopes reveal deepest portrait of universe ever

Hubble Space Telescopes revealed at the Space Telescope Science Institute the most far-reaching portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. This historic new view of space by the Hubble Telescope is two separate images. Both images reveal space galaxies that are too faint to be seen by a ground-based telescope.

The space images were taken by Hubble Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi- object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Massimo Stiavelli of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field project says, "Hubble takes us to within a stone's throw of the big bang itself". The ACS and NICMOS telescope images will be used to search for space galaxies that existed between 400 and 800 million years.

Space astronomers of the HUDF Hubble telescope project want to know whether the universe appears to be the same at this very early time as it did when the cosmos was between 1 and 2 billion years old. The HUDF field contains an estimated 10,000 space galaxies. All this new data from these powerful telescopes will offer new insights into the birth and evolution of space galaxies.