Via the Agitator we find Science Blog's post on a Hubble Telescope video.
To quote Science Blog, "If you watch only one astronomy video this year, make it this one."
They found a blank section of sky, as black as they could find with no stars. It was about the size of "a grain of sand held at arm's length" and focused the Hubble on it for a week or more. They saw (edited for loose facts)three thousand galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago. Then, they did it again with better stuff and saw even earlier the light images were still from about 13 billion years ago but they were older than the previous.

Very cool.
Below the fold is a pic from the oldest light images they've captured.

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