October 16, 1998
Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Faintest Galaxies
Astronomers using two instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the faintest -- and possibly the farthest -- galaxies ever seen.
The long-exposure infrared image of the previously unseen part of the universe was taken with the space telescope's near-infrared camera and multi-object spectrometer.
Copies of the image, the details of which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the
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