Mom, if u r reading this......Her Majesty.......Queen Isikiara (sp?) said to say hi.........she is from a galaxy even farther than Her Majesty, Queen Nesera....................like wow......100 billion light years is a loooong way away, nice 2 meet you...........Your Majesty.....thanks for waking me up....

It actually extends farther...........Queen Isikiara (sp?) told me...........she has a daughter too, like me and Queen Nesera.......Across the Stars......Anakin....a love story..........the OTHER side of the entire universe.....my dad has been there...............go daddy! mad scientist that u r........like wow indeed...

The Farthest Visible Reaches of Space

About the Image

Current observations suggest that the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old. We know that light takes time to travel, so that if we observe an object that is 13 billion light years away, then that light has been traveling towards us for 13 billion years. Essentially, we are seeing that object as it appeared 13 billion years ago.

With every year that passes, our newest technology enables us to see further and further back.

The image used for this stop on our journey is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The UDF is one of the deepest views of the visible universe to date; certainly it was the deepest when it was originally created in in 2003-2004. There are approximately 10,000 galaxies in this view, which is a sort of "core sample" of a very narrow patch of sky near the constellation Fornax. The smallest, reddest galaxies in the image, of which there are about 100, are among the most distant known objects!