Hubble portrait shows cosmos in multi coloured glory

A composite image collected by Hubble over nine years
A composite image collected by Hubble over nine years
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The inky blackness of space comes alive in a riot of colour in a new Nasa panorama of the cosmos.

Hundreds of photographs taken from the Hubble Space Telescope have been put together in a composite, looking deep and far into the universe.

The image includes ultraviolet light, which is normally not visible to the human eye, for the first time.

It shows up in the photo as bright baby blue with spinning galaxies, which are about 5 to 10 billion years old, not too old or young in cosmic terms.

More than 800 photos were used to show the 10,000 multi-coloured galaxies.

Zolt Levay, a Hubble astronomer, said that by adding ultraviolet and infrared to the pictures, people can now see the universe in