In 2004, HUDF team members (including
Professor Jogee ) carried out
observations lasting one million-seconds of the
Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF),
the deepest visible-light image ever made of the Universe.
These panels (Credit: NASA, ESA, S Beckwith and the HUDF team) from the HUDF
reveal the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called "dark ages," the
time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark universe.
Almost every panel shows oddball-shaped galaxies engaged in violent interactions
with their neighbors and chronicles a period when the universe was younger and
more chaotic. Order and structure were just beginning to emerge.
The HUDF offers new insights into the origin, structure, and merger history
of galaxies and on what types of objects reheated the universe a long time ago.
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