File:View of Distant, Faint Galaxies Reveals Young Galaxy Building Blocks (1996-29-438).tiff

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Embedded in this Hubble Space Telescope image of nearby and distant galaxies are 18 young galaxies or galactic building blocks, each containing dust, gas, and a few billion stars.

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English: Embedded in this Hubble Space Telescope image of nearby and distant galaxies are 18 young galaxies or galactic building blocks, each containing dust, gas, and a few billion stars. Each of these objects is 11 billion light-years from Earth and much smaller than today's galaxies.
Date 4 September 1996 (upload date)
Source View of Distant, Faint Galaxies Reveals Young Galaxy Building Blocks
Author Rogier Windhorst and Sam Pascarelle (Arizona State University) and NASA
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Survey; Deep Fields; Medium Deep Survey; Cosmology; Distant Galaxies

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