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 ...

In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Telescope toward a seemingly empty spot in the sky. Because the telescope was purposely directed far away from the glare produced by stars in the Milky Way ...

Hubble Deep Field by Dave Shave-Wall A negative image with the location of the HDF marked - several galaxies can be seen ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...