Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Researchers believe that the faint reddish smudge indicated by the arrow in the image above is a candidate for the most distant known galaxy which may have existed only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang . The image is part of the Hubble Deep Field , the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest yet picture of the Universe. Made in December 1995 by staring for ten consecutive days with the Hubble, astronomers have been intently studying the resulting deep field image filled with remote galaxies for clues to what galaxies and the Universe looked like in the distant past. Based on this technique, six of the most distant galaxies in the Deep Field appear to be farther away than even quasars .
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