It was a proposed endeavor to capture an unprecedented "deep field" view of the cosmos, allowing humanity to look back billions of years, near the dawn of time. Though Bahcall believed Hubble ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

A central portion of the Hubble Deep Field, created from exposures taken in 1995. The Hubble Deep Field covers a piece of sky about 1/13th the diameter of the full moon. | Credit: NASA ...

Hubble’s 35-year journey showcases humanity’s boldest space achievements, capturing everything from new stars forming to ...

It is a small area of the sky, equivalent to holding a square of one millimeter by one millimeter at arm’s length. But tens ...

"Every modern astronomy textbook includes contributions from Hubble." For 35 years ... the complex gravitational field of the intervening lensing galaxy caused the quasar's light to travel ...

Hubble has revealed that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field makes auroras on the giant planet particularly intense and long-lasting, unlike those on Earth. In July 1994, over 20 fragments of comet ...

Not a single planet had been seen around another star. Among its long list of breakthroughs: Hubble's deep field images unveiled myriad galaxies dating back to the early universe. The telescope ...

The variety of targets shows off Hubble's versatility and ability to see not only into deep space, but also into our own solar system. "To have this mission continue to produce top quality science ...

Taken in 1995, the Hubble Deep Field image was taken over the course of 23 days by pointing at a blank patch of sky and collecting single photons every day. It was these photographs that revealed ...