Pan across The Hubble Legacy Field of 200,000 Galaxies

Pan across The Hubble Legacy Field of 200,000 Galaxies

This explores the detail of the Hubble Legacy Field, a mosaic of the distant universe that documents 16 years of observations from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. This image contains 200,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: May 16, 2019

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