Hubble is still going strong:). Gazing deep into the sky, it has
located a school of galaxies located within a tiny region of space. They are all very different: some are large, some are small. Some are old, and some are new. Most of them have never been seen before, until now:).
Galactic Find (Courtesy: HubbleSite)A handful of large fully formed galaxies are scattered throughout the image. These galaxies are easy to see because they are relatively close to us. Several of the galaxies are spirals with flat disks that are oriented edge-on or face-on to our line of sight, or somewhere in between. Elliptical galaxies and more exotic galaxies with bars or tidal tails are also visible.
Many galaxies that appear small in this image are simply farther away. These visibly smaller galaxies are so distant that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We are seeing these galaxies, therefore, when they were much younger than the larger, nearby galaxies in the image. One red galaxy to the lower left of the bright central star is acting as a lens to a large galaxy directly behind it. Light from the farther galaxy is bent around the nearby galaxy's nucleus to form a distorted arc.
This image is a composite of multiple exposures of a single field taken by the
Advanced Camera for Surveys. This image took nearly 40 hours to complete and is one of the longest exposures ever taken by Hubble:):).