Hubble Goes To The Limit In Search Of Farthest Galaxies Stretching the vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope farther across space and further back into time than ever before, astronomers have peered into a previously unseen realm of the universe. A "long exposure" infrared image taken with Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has uncovered the faintest galaxies ever seen. Astronomers believe some of these galaxies could be over 12 billion light-years away (depending on cosmological models) – making them the farthest objects ever seen. A powerful new generation of telescop....

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