Hubble Ultra Deep Field

The Hubble Space Telescope was carried into orbit in April of 1990, and is still one of the most massive, vesatile space telescopes ever made.  On September 24, 2003, the Hubble began snapping pictures of a seemingly empty region of space in the constellation Fornax.  The telescope’s optical survey camera, or ACS, continually took pictures of this area using different filters and wavelengths, before it concluded on January 16, 2004.  The result of this galactic photo shoot was the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image, which is the most comprehensive look at our universe to date.  The finished image contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies, and will be used to identify galaxies that existed between 400-800 million years after the Big Bang.  The HUDF is truly a remarkable sight  - and it also makes me feel about as insignificant as Ringo Starr’s bodyguard: