Hubble Baby Universe Pic
January 7, 2010 | AZPM
This photograph captured by the Hubble Space Telescope is a “baby picture” of the universe, the earliest one ever taken, 600 million years after the Big Bang.
The recent repairs and upgrades allowed the Hubble Space Telescope to look so far back in time. University of Arizona Astronomy Professor, Rodger Thompson, was the principle investigator for, “NICMOS”, the space telescope’s original infrared camera. He says, “this picture is equivalent to what a biologist might see if he could look back and see the very first life forms on earth, and it shows the very creation of the universe as we know it today.” This picture shows more than a billion years of cosmic history and combines a broad range of colors from the ultraviolet through visible light and into the near-infrared.
