10-3-12: Peering into the Universe

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This week, we've been looking at a new composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope. It's called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF. While the image is new, what it shows is really old. Some of what we're seeing is what was happening 13.2 billion years ago; less than half a billion years after the Big Bang.

Nathan Sterner talks with Massimo Stiavelli, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.