The UK infrared telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been doing great work recently thanks to its brand new camera, the cannon shaped object in the picture below.  The camera is responsible for the UK Infrared Deep Sky Survey, which includes the deepest ever look at the infrared sky known as the Ultra Deep Survey (so that’s the UKIRT UKIDSS UDS, acronym fans). Highlights from this survey were presented at NAM today, and here’s a close up of just one object among the many thousands contained in the field. It is, of course, relatively nearby, but the red objects in the background are likely to be galaxies which are at least 10 billion light years away.