Another decade, another great image from Hubble. Released to coincide with the AAS meeting in Washington, DC, this panorama of thousands of galaxies combines shots taken last year by the new Wide Field Camera 3 and some 2004 images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys, both whizzing round the Earth aboard the venerable Hubble satellite.

Galaxies in the image’s foreground emitted the light captured here around a billion years ago. The faint red specs in the background are pictured over 13 billion years ago.

Granted the Hubble scientists had to combine ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared light to make this image, so space doesn’t really look like this. It is pretty though; even more so in the zoomable version.

“Such a detailed multi-colour view of the universe has never before been assembled in such a combination of colour, clarity, accuracy, and depth,” says the Hubble team.

More news from the AAS meeting is on our In the Field blog.

Image: NASA, ESA, R. Windhorst, S. Cohen, M. Mechtley, and M. Rutkowski (Arizona State University, Tempe), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Observatories), N. Hathi (University of California, Riverside), R. Ryan (University of California, Davis), H. Yan (Ohio State University), and A. Koekemoer (Space Telescope Science Institute)