Charity Woodrum

Hubble Deep Field.

Okay.

Yeah.

I encountered it in one of those books.

And basically this image, how it was made was they found the darkest part of the sky.

So as far as we knew, there was nothing there.

And some astronomers said, why don't we point the Hubble Space Telescope at this dark patch of sky for 10 days, which was a very kind of bold and crazy move because Hubble Space Telescope time is very precious and expensive.

And some people thought nothing would be there.

Like, why point it in complete darkness?

And yeah, they used Hubble to stare at this dark place in the sky for 10 whole days.

And then the image that came back had thousands of galaxies in it.

Thousands.

If it's very bright and has those spikes around it, it's a star with, you know, a star in between us and those galaxies.

But everything else is an entire galaxy.

There's some red orb galaxies in there.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, are they like these orangey ones?

Yeah, they're really red.

We call them quiescent galaxies when they're red and dead like that.

Right, exactly.