Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

New techniques are being used to transform ... come from a single image taken by Hubble. It's called the "Hubble Ultra Deep Field" and was created when Hubble stared at a small patch of sky ...

Over the last two decades, astronomers have constructed new and better images of our deepest view of the universe, including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and more recently, the eXtreme Deep Field ...

The Hubble Deep Field, shown here, is a patch of sky in the constellation of Ursa Major the Great Bear. It was originally chosen because it was an empty and apparently blank patch of sky - so no ...