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This Hubble Space Telescope view reveals thousands of galaxies stretching back into time across billions of light-years of space. The image covers a portion of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).

GOODS is a mosaic image that combines deep-field observations from Hubble, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, augmented with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM Newton, and some of the world's most powerful ground-based telescopes, such as the 4 m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Despite the multitude of galaxies visible in this image, one study using GOODS and other Hubble deep fields concluded that at least 10 times more galaxies exist in the observable universe than previously thought. This led to the conclusion that in order for the numbers of visible galaxies and their masses to add up, there must be a further 90 percent of galaxies in the observable universe that are still too faint and too far away to be seen with today's telescopes.

GOODS South is located in the constellation Fornax.

Credit: NASA, ESA, the GOODS Team, and M. Giavalisco (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2016/news-2016-39.html

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