Astronomy Picture of the Day- Government shutdown so no APOD Today. I will dig up some of my favorites - Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014

NASA ^ | 5 Jun, 2014 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H.Teplitz and M.Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst

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Explanation: Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014. The dimmest galaxies are more than 10 billion times fainter than stars visible to the unaided eye and represent the Universe in the extreme past, a few 100 million years after the Big Bang. The image itself was made with the significant addition of ultraviolet data to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, an update of Hubble's famous most distant gaze toward the southern constellation of Fornax. It now covers the entire range of wavelengths available to Hubble's cameras, from ultraviolet through visible to near-infrared. Ultraviolet data adds the crucial capability of studying star formation in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field galaxies between 5 and 10 billion light-years distant.

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Another good one would be Copeland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. The title might not fit, but the music sure does.

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I’ll second that!🙂

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Congratulations on your fifth anniversary of doing this! It’s the Cosmos’s jewel box of glittering gems.

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Thanks, it only feels like four years and eleven months!