... Back Issues . ... Year of Pluto . ... Astronomers see true shapes of galaxies 11 billion years back in time . ... The astronomers used Hubble to look 11 billion years back in time to when the universe was young, exploring the anatomy of distant galaxies. While it was known that the Hubble Sequence holds true as far back as around 8 billion years ago, these new observations push a further 2.5 billion years back in cosmic time, covering a huge 80 percent of the past history of the universe. ...