astronomy
Oct 1 2008, Celso Camargo

Do you know what is the most important photo taken by mankind? If not, it is an image acquired by the Hubble Telescope in September 2003, which for 11 days was pointed to an area of the universe known as “Ultra Deep Field”.

It was believed until...

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