I remember the day this photo came out; my family was genuinely excited about it, as it is the farthest-shot image from space ever taken. Something so beautiful and helter-skelter is ineffable to me, though deep space seems to bear a remarkable resemblance to the final unexplored frontier of Earth, which is the deep sea. Pitch blackness with unusual sources of wild color.
Anyhow, the image reveals some of the most ancient galaxies ever seen by man- by ancient, we are talking billions and billions of years. All that time is difficult to comprehend.
The infrared channel of a Hubble camera took the shot. It is considered an eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) shot. The XDF will continue to be heavily studied and utilized by astronomers.
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