Space... the final frontier | ESA/Hubble
https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1615/
The newest target of Hubble’s mission is the distant galaxy cluster Abell S1063, potentially home to billions of strange new worlds.
This view of the cluster, which can be seen in the centre of the image, shows it as it was four billion years ago. But Abell S1063
allows us to explore a time even earlier than this, where no telescope has really looked before. The huge mass of the cluster distorts
and magnifies the light from galaxies that lie behind it due to an effect called gravitational lensing. This allows Hubble to see
galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to observe and makes it possible to search for, and study, the very first generation of
galaxies in the Universe. “Fascinating”, as a famous Vulcan might say.
The first results from the data on Abell S1063 promise some remarkable new discoveries. Already, a galaxy has been found that is
observed as it was just a billion years after the Big Bang.
