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ASTRONOMY: Hubble Gazes Into the Universe's Uncharted Depths
Robert Irion
On 9 March, Hubble scientists released the Ultra Deep Field (UDF), the most sensitive photograph of the distant universe ever taken, containing about 10,000 objects--many of which probably existed when the cosmos was less than 1 billion years old.