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Reporter: For 26 years the Hubble Space Telescope

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continuing mission has 

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captured the attention of the world

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with its all inspiring images of strange 

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new world and exotics galaxies 

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across our universe.

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And Hubble as a new image 

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that literally takes us back to the very edge 

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of space and time and here to tell us more is 

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Dr. Padi Boyd at 

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Thanks for joining us.

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Padi: Happy to be here.

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Reporter: So for more then a quarter century

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Hubble has inspired generation of people around

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the world with its views of the universe.

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Can you show us this new Frontier Field image?

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Padi: Absolutely, so just like 

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the Enterprise allowed Captain Kirk and his 

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crew to explore strange new worlds 

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in our galaxy the Hubble Space Telescope

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right here around planet Earth

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allows us to view the 

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most distant, furthest galaxies,

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dimmest galaxies by using the 

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power of clusters of galaxies which 

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are hundreds of galaxies bound 

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to each other by gravity and combining that 

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with Hubble to get a very deep view of the 

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furthest edge of the universe.

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Reporter: So this image is literally taking us back

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back to the very edge of space and time.

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How is this image helping us explore the final frontier?

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Padi: Well because that 

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cluster in the front has so much 

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mass in it, it actually bends 

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light around it and 

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also magnifies it.

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So general relativity, Einstein's theory, predicts

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that mass would bend space and time.

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This is basically, effectively a lens 

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and that means the galaxies that are 

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very far behind that massive cluster 

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can be magnified up to 10 or 20 times 

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their original size

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and brightness. Meaning that we can now 

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for the first time be imaging furthest,

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faintest galaxies and images like this.

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Reporter: Now science fiction 

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like Star Trek has stretched

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our imagination for 50 years.

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The star ship Enterprise and its successors 

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explore hundred of strange new worlds, 

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how does Hubble compare seeking out 

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life in new civilizations?

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Padi: One of the driving themes of NASA 

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science right now is seeking out life 

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and Hubble is able to contribute 

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to that project in so many ways 

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the exquisitely keen vision that

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Hubble gives us allows us to peer 

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into these beautiful nebulae 

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regions of gas and dust where new stars 

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are being born these are stellar nurseries 

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and we peer in around those 

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stars we can see discs of gas and dust 

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forming planets and we can even look at planets around nearby stars.

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This is a recent result 

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of a star only 40 light years away that has 

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2 transiting planets and Hubble can actually 

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look a the data when those stars are transiting 

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and so start to peel out 

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some details about the atmospheres of the planets.

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Reporter: How’s Star Trek helped 

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us imagine many wonders out there in the final frontier,

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what are some of he cool things 

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that Hubble has actually seen?

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Padi: That’s a really hard question to answer because Hubble 

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has seen so many amazing things

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over the years. 

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We can see galaxies colliding, 

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we now know that is very part of the evolution of galaxies,

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we see super sonic jets 

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emanating from super massive 

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black holes at the core of galaxies 

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and we can actually take a core sample 

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of the universe as a whole and look 

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at tens of thousands of galaxies 

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at one time all the way back to when we think 

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the first galaxies formed more then 

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13 billion years ago.

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Reporter: That’s pretty amazing stuff. 

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Where can we see more of Hubble amazing images?

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Padi: You can find all this information and more 

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by visiting us at nasa.gov/hubble on the web

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or if you want to follow us on Twitter 

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we are @NASA_Hubble.

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