Large Field WFPC2 Distant Galaxies

A Distant Cluster of Galaxies

[left] – One of the deepest images to date of the universe, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), reveals thousands of faint galaxies at the detection limit of present day telescopes. Peering across a large volume of the observable cosmos, Hubble resolves thousands of...

Galaxies in the Young Universe

[left] – This image of a small region of the constellation Sculptor, taken with a ground-based photographic sky survey camera, illustrates the extremely small angular size of a distant galaxy cluster in the night sky. Though this picture encompasses a piece of the sky about the...

Galaxies: Snapshots in Time

This sequence of NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of remote galaxies offers tantalizing initial clues to the evolution of galaxies in the universe. [far left column] These are traditional spiral and elliptical-shaped galaxies that make up the two basic classes of...

Remote Galaxy Clusters: Lost Ancestors to Our Milky Way Galaxy

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds of its present age. Hubble's high resolution allows astronomers to study, for the first time, the shapes of galaxies...

Spiral Galaxy when Age of Universe was 9 Billion Years

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Elliptical Galaxy when Age of Universe was 14 Billion Years

Spiral Galaxy when Age of Universe was 14 Billion Years

Elliptical Galaxy when Age of Universe was 9 Billion Years

Spiral Galaxy when Age of Universe was 9 Billion Years

Elliptical Galaxy when Age of Universe was 5 Billion Years

Spiral Galaxy when Age of Universe was 5 Billion Years

Spiral Galaxy when Age of Universe was 5 Billion Years

Elliptical Galaxy when Age of Universe was 2 Billion Years

Spiral Galaxy when Age of Universe was 2 Billion Years

Spiral Galaxy when Age of Universe was 2 Billion Years