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 ...

With NICMOS, it should be possible to peer into the Hubble Deep Field to the distance where galaxies (if such exist that far back) are seen when the universe had attained only five percent of its ...

Galaxies observed in the Hubble Deep Field image The image above is from the Hubble Deep Field, a special observation made with the Hubble Space Telescope. With this image we can see farther into ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes ... [+] galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours. The smallest, reddest galaxies ...

Hubble gazes at galaxies all the time—the famous Hubble Deep Field images alone show countless galaxies in faraway parts of the universe. Andromeda, however, is much closer and takes up more of ...

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 ...

and the follow-up Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), which transformed astronomers’ view of the early universe by revealing galaxies that formed in the Fornax constellation when the universe was ...

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 ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe ... using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field ...