The Deep Field

The Deep Field - an image assembled from 342 separate exposures taken by Hubble over 10 consecutive days in December, 1995.

'Golden Eye' - an essay about looking at things that are really far away and the importance of this image.
Read it here http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/golden-eye

"Gazing at the Deep Field is like mainlining the whole of time through the optic nerve, like counting by fingertip the tree rings of the universe."