The most epic picture ever taken—in 3-D

 

The image is Hubble Ultra Deep Field. It was taken over a few months at the end of 2003, focusing the Hubble Space Telescope’s powerful lens on a pinprick of space—one 12-millionth of the sky. It revealed a cross-section of galaxies ranging in age from a few hundred million years old to over 13 billion light years. Virtually every dot in this image is a galaxy—a collection of millions to hundreds of billions of stars. There are a stunning 10,000 of them!

Based on the redshift values of each galaxy, nasa calculated their distances and created a 3-D rendering of the image, contained within the following video.

Next month the Trumpet will release a new booklet, Our Awesome Universe Potential, explaining the significance of the cosmos. Watch for it.