On Tuesday, NASA released a comprehensive image from the Hubble Space Telescope featuring all of the colors it can detect in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), both visible and invisible.
As NBC News reports, the HUDF catalogs thousands of galaxies in the constellation Fornax. Previous images captured everything but near-ultraviolet light — from near-infrared through the visible spectrum, plus far ultraviolet. "The lack of information from ultraviolet light made studying galaxies in the HUDF like trying to understand the history of families without knowing about the grade-school children," Caltech's Harry Teplitz said in a statement.
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