Hubble Probes the Early Universe

Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2009-2010 and UDFj-39546284

The farthest and one of the very earliest galaxies ever seen in the universe appears as a faint red blob in this ultra-deep-field exposure taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This is the deepest infrared image taken of the universe. Based on the object's color, astronomers...

HUDF WFC3/IR Image

Close-up of HUDF WFC3/IR Image Around UDFj-39546284

Gray-scale Image of Object UDFj-39546284 from HUDF WFC3/IR

Rate of Star Birth in the Early Universe

The new Hubble Space Telescope results show that the rate of star birth changed dramatically in the universe over just 170 million years, increasing by ten times from 480 million years after the Big Bang to 650 million years, and doubling again in the next 130 million years. The...

Compass and Scale Image of HUDF WFC3/IR

Zoom into Infrared Hubble Ultra Deep Field and Object UDFj-39546284

This video is a zoom into the Hubble Space Telescope infrared Ultra Deep Field, first taken in 2009. It is a very small patch of sky in the southern constellation Fornax. Several thousand galaxies at various distances fill Hubble's field of view. The zoom centers on the farthest...