This scientific visualization depicts a flight through the galaxies in the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF). Using measured and estimated distances for approximately three thousand galaxies, astronomers and visualizers constructed a three-dimensional model of the XDF galaxy distribution. The camera traverses more than thirteen billion light-years of space. For cinematic reasons, the exceedingly vast distances in the 3D model have been greatly compressed.
CREDITS:
Visualization: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, L. Frattare, T. Davis, Z. Levay, and G. Bacon (STScI).
Science: G. Illingworth, P. Oesch, and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz).
