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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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