This highly sensitive camera can see starlight from far-off objects - light that has been "stretched" by the expanding Universe.
The camera is sensitive to infrared light, which has wavelengths about twice as long as visible light and cannot be detected by the human eye. It is described as "beyond red".
"We can now look even further back in time, identifying galaxies when the Universe was only 5% of its current age - within one billion years of the Big Bang."
"These new observations are likely to be the most sensitive images Hubble will ever take." The follow-up studies, he added, would be possible when Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was [sic] launched in 2014.
...employed a technique called gravitational lensing, which uses of the gravity of relatively nearby objects to magnify the light coming from much more distant objects.
The light from very distant objects appears redder
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