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 ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

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 ...

Hubble’s 30th anniversary image turned into a 3D “spaceflight” experience“. New techniques are being used to transform images from the Hubble Space Telescope into spectacular 3D ...