Astronomers have unveiled a picture of the distant universe that ranks as the sharpest and most detailed ever recorded. A faint, red body in that image, taken with a camera that astronauts installed on the Hubble Space Telescope 2 months ago (SN: 3/16/02, p. 163: Telescope Tuned Up: Back to work for orbiting observatory), could be one of the most remote galaxies known, researchers reported April 30 at a NASA press briefing in Washington, D.C.
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