Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) is an image of a small region of

space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 10,000
galaxies. It is composited from Hubble Space Telescope data
accumulated over a period from September 24, 2003, through to January
16, 2004. Looking back approximately 13 billion years (between 400 and
800 million years after the Big Bang) it has been used to search for
galaxies that existed at that time. The HUDF image was taken in a
section of the sky with a low density of bright stars in the near-field,
allowing much better viewing of dimmer, more distant objects. In August
and September 2009, the Hubble's Deep Field was expanded using the
infrared channel of the recently attached Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
When combined with existing HUDF data, astronomers were able to
identify a new list of potentially very distant galaxies. [2][3]
Located southwest of Orion in the southern-hemisphere constellation
Fornax, the rectangular image is 2.4 arcminutes to an edge,[4] or 3.4
arcminutes diagonally. This is approximately one tenth of the angular
diameter of a full moon viewed from Earth (which is less than 34
arcminutes),[5] smaller than a 1 mm by 1 mm square of paper held at 1
meter away, and equal to roughly one thirteen-millionth of the total area
of the sky. The image is oriented so that the upper left corner points
toward north (46.4) on the celestial sphere.
On September 25, 2012, NASA released a further refined version of the
Ultra-Deep Field dubbed the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF). The XDF
reveals galaxies that span back 13.2 billion years in time, revealing a
galaxy theorized to be formed only 450 million years after the big bang
event.[6] On June 3, 2014, NASA released the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field
image composed of, for the first time, the full range of ultraviolet to nearinfrared light.[1]