Galaxies’ blue glow gives them away ESO/MUSE HUDF collaboration
Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field just got even deeper. Astronomers have found 72 mysterious new galaxies in this tiny spot of the sky that were too faint for even the Hubble space telescope to see.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small region of relatively dark space next to the Fornax constellation. Though the image only covers an extremely small fraction of the sky, it contains about 10,000 galaxies.
Now, astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile…
