The patch astronomers looked at is less than 1% the size of the full moon yet contains roughly 10,000 galaxies — and astronomers just found even more.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image is one of the most detailed photos of the darkest corners of the universe.
The image, built over more than a decade with hundreds of long exposures, has revealed 10,000 galaxies.
However, a large ground-based telescope recently found 72 galaxies that are invisible in Hubble’s best image.
The new images also reveal the chemical makeup of many galaxies and some of their strange, haloed structures.
Over the past two decades, the Hubble telescope has stared at a dim corner of the universe to create the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, where astronomers have found about 10,000 galaxies hiding in the void.
But a new stare-down of this meticulously studied patch of night sky has added close to 100 previously undetected galaxies to the tally, among other amazing discoveries.
Tech: Astronomers just found more than 70 ‘invisible’ galaxies lurking in the deepest, darkest patch of the night sky
