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Long shots: Galaxies from 13.2 billion years ago

By Seth Borenstein
Published January 7, 2014 10:29pm ET
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Long shots: Galaxies from 13.2 billion years ago
This undated image made available by the European Space Agency and NASA on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 shows galaxies in the Abell 2744 cluster, and blue galaxies behind it, distorted and amplified by gravitational lensing. The long-exposure image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows some of the intrinsically faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in visible light. (AP Photo/ESA/NASA) | NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF T

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has peered back to a chaotic time 13. 2 billion years ago when never-before-seen galaxies were tiny, bright blue and full of stars bursting to life all over the place.

Thanks to some complex physics tricks, NASA’s aging telescope is just starting to see the universe at its infancy in living color and detail.

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