Voyaging deep into the Universe

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Nov 7, 2008 9:46 PMNov 5, 2019 12:26 AM

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The European Southern Observatory just released a picture that I can only call astonishing: the deepest ground-based look into the universe ever undertaken. It's part of the Chandra (X-Ray Observatory) Deep Field South, an effort to map out distant regions of the Universe across the entire spectrumwith incredible resolution and depth. The image is mostly in the near ultraviolet, or UV. It's a total of 55 hours of observations. Despite that, like many things, at first glance it doesn't look like much:

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