August 27, 2013

A Flight Through Ultra Deep Space

What would it look like to fly through the distant universe? The video below is a 3-D model of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), one of the most distant fields of galaxies ever imaged.

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What would it look like to fly through the distant universe? The video below is a 3-D model of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), one of the most distant fields of galaxies ever imaged.

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Animation Credit: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, Z. Levay, L. Frattare, B. Mobasher, A. Koekemoer and the HUDF Team (STScI)

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