Legacy

Fellow humans, we are not even a spec in the multiverse of forever.

The new Hubble Legacy Field (HLF) mosaic image combines observations from 16 years’ worth of Hubble Space Telescope deep-field surveys, including the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) survey, which offers the most far-reaching view of the universe. The image contains 265,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of the universe’s history, to just 500 million years after the Big Bang –a mosaic of nearly 7,500 images of one part of the sky, creating the largest and most comprehensive history of the universe.

Makes one think, doesn't it?

Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this 'deepest-ever' view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Addendum: The HDF field of view of the sky is equivalent to a 300mm lens or approximately a 12 degrees viewing angle. To whit:

The HLF image contains 100 times as many galaxies as the previous deep field surveys—in part because it takes in a wider view. It covers an area of the sky that, viewed from Earth, is nearly the width of the Earth’s Moon (or half the width of your forefinger held at arm’s length). By comparison, the XDF survey, which focuses on the same region of the sky, covers an area of space less than one-tenth of the Moon’s diameter.

“Now that we have gone wider than in previous surveys, we are harvesting many more distant galaxies in the largest such dataset ever produced,” said Garth Illingworth of the University of California-Santa Cruz, leader of the team that assembled the image. “This one image contains the full history of the growth of galaxies in the universe, from their times as ‘infants’ to when they grew into fully-fledged ‘adults.’ No image will surpass this one until future space telescopes are launched.”

Think 360 to get a better idea of just how vast reality truly is. Astounding without question.