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 just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.
Your body
Every atom in it
Overwhelmingly empty space
Nothingness stretches out
From one star to the next one
To myriad galaxies
This peculiar universe
Has infinitely more nothing
Than somethings
Awash in emptiness
We’re grasping onto
Mirages of solid ground
