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Hubble Deep Field Details


Depicts: Parts of the Hubble Deep Field
Copyright: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA

Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching all the way to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF image covers a speck of sky a tiny fraction the diameter of the full Moon. This is so narrow, just a few foreground stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are visible and are vastly outnumbered by the menagerie of far more distant galaxies.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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