NASA Snaps Most Colorful Portrait Of The Cosmos To Date

MUST CREDIT: NASA/ESA/RexThis is a composite image shows the visible and near infrared light spectrum collected from Hubble's ACS and WFC3 instruments over a nine-year period Hubble team unveils most colourful view ... MUST CREDIT: NASA/ESA/RexThis is a composite image shows the visible and near infrared light spectrum collected from Hubble's ACS and WFC3 instruments over a nine-year period Hubble team unveils most colourful view of universe captured by space telescope - Jun 2014 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe ? among the most colourful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old telescope. Researchers say the image, in new study called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, provides the missing link in star formation. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014 image is a composite of separate exposures taken in 2003 to 2012 with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3. (Rex Features via AP Images) MORE LESS
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured our cosmos at its most colorful.

A new NASA panorama looking deep and far into the universe for the first time includes ultraviolet light, which is normally not visible to the human eye. It shows up in the photo as bright baby blue with spinning galaxies, which are about 5 to 10 billion years old, not too old or young in cosmic terms.

The photo is a composite of more than 800 photos taken by Hubble and shows about 10,000 multi-colored galaxies.

Hubble astronomer Zolt Levay (zohlt lih-VAY’) said by adding ultraviolet and infrared to the pictures, people can now see the universe in the broad spectrum of color “and then some.”

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