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Hubble Achieves Deepest View Yet

Posted December 14, 2012 9:59 AM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have observed deeper into space than ever before, reaching back in time to when the cosmos was less than 3% of its current age.

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12/14/2012 10:06 AM

Focus....

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12/14/2012 4:00 PM

Is that the face of Elvis?
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Re: Hubble Achieves Deepest View Yet

12/15/2012 8:26 AM

Looks more like Abraham Lincoln to me:

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12/15/2012 9:18 AM

What they really saw, but didn't want you to know...
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Re: Hubble Achieves Deepest View Yet

12/18/2012 8:47 AM

If space really is curved and everywhere is the centre of the universe, what's to say that the image isn't of the local area just looking at it another way from 13 billion light-years of curved distance?

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