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Published: 20:15 GMT, 25 January 2019 | Updated: 20:19 GMT, 25 January 2019
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It is the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space.
Astronomers used a new technique to reveal 'lost' light around the largest galaxies in Hubble Ultra-Deep Field images.
Researchers were able to process several Hubble images to reveal the new look at our Universe.
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Astronomers used a new technique to reveal 'lost' light around the largest galaxies in the famous Hubble Ultra-Deep Field images.
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias spent three years producing the image,
By reprocessing the image, and combining several images, the group was able to recover a large quantity of light from the outer zones of the largest galaxies in the image.
'Recovering this light, emitted by the stars in these outer zones, was equivalent to recovering the light from a complete galaxy,' the team said.
For some galaxies this missing light shows that they have diameters almost twice as big as previously measured.
The HUDF is the result of combining hundreds of images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) of the HST during over 230 hours of observation which, in 2012, yielded the deepest image of the Universe taken until then.
This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was
