When the Space Telescope Science Institute revealed the Hubble Deep Field to the public, it was difficult to contain the anticipation. The institute made a 10-foot poster of the cosmic vista, and ...

In the case of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the image captured 10,000 galaxies. Of those, 100 of them were some of the most distant known at the time, existing when the universe was just 800 ...

This crop of the new Hubble Legacy Field contains around 200,000 galaxies, stretching back through 13.3 billion years of time, to just 500 million years after the universe's birth in the big bang.

Content continues below The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, captured in 2014, expanded our entire scale of the universe. Only a handful of stars from the Milky Way are visible here.

Some of these photos, like the iconic Hubble Deep Field, allow us to look back in time to see galaxies that are billions of years old.With each new image released, Hubble continues to captivate ...

During the lecture at the Rio Theatre, Bob Williams — a scientist who was at the center of creating the Hubble Deep Space image — will discuss the observations of distant galaxies made by the ...