Facts about Hubble Ultra Deep Field
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Infrared, ultraviolet, and visible wavelengths were all combined to produce the Hubble Ultra Deep Field's iconic composite image.
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Captured in the constellation Fornax, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field covers an area of sky roughly one-thirteenth the diameter of the full Moon.
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A single exposure session for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field required approximately 800 orbits of observation time accumulated over several months.
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Light captured in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image traveled for billions of years, revealing some of the earliest galaxies formed after the Big Bang.
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Astronomers needed to point Hubble at an almost completely dark, seemingly empty region of sky to capture the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.
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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, captured in 2004, contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies within a tiny patch of sky.