Ultra deep starfield view from infant universe tablecloth

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series: A fantastic table cloth showing a magnificently deep view of the sky showing a view of the infant universe. This image comes from the UltraVISTA survey and reveals more than 200,000 galaxies. In total more than six thousand separate exposures with a total effective exposure time of 55 hours were combined to create this picture. Apart from a handful of blue-looking stars, everything in this picture is a galaxy, billions of light years away. The tiny red dots are galaxies so remote that the light we see from them started its journey shortly after the Universe itself formed - wow! Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.