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Hubble’s Deep Fields

Deep Field images look back in both space and time, capturing thousands of galaxies in various stages of evolution.

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent 10 straight days in a unique experiment, staring at a dark, seemingly empty...
Thousands of galaxies float in a small section of space.
Several thousand never-before-seen spiral, elliptical and colliding galaxies snap into view in this Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)...
Spiral, Elliptical and Colliding Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South Image
This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages,...
Field is filled with galaxies in colors of white, yellow, blue-white, and red; all on a black background.
This infrared view reveals galaxies far, far away that existed long, long ago. Taken by the Near Infrared Camera and...
Hubble Ultra Deep Field Infrared View of Galaxies Billions of Light-Years Away
In 2012, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to revisit the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, peering even deeper than before...
Image is filled with distant galaxies in colors of yellow-gold, red, blue, white. The whole image has a reddish tint.
This image, called the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), combines Hubble observations taken over the past decade of a small...
The field of view is filled with galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Colors range from red to blue and those in between.
This long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is the deepest ever made of any cluster...
Hundreds of galaxies in a diverse array of shapes and colors are scattered across the dark background of space.
In this field, Hubble resolved roughly 10,000 galaxies in visible light, most of which are randomly scattered galaxies. The blue...
Hundreds of galaxies in a diverse array of shapes and colors are scattered across the dark background of space.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much...
A cluster of yellow galaxies with hundreds of background galaxies. The image include arcs that are distorted images of background galaxies.
A dazzling array of galaxies are scattered throughout this Hubble Space Telescope deep field image. Spiral and elliptical galaxies seem...
Hundreds of galaxies in a diverse array of shapes and colors are scattered across the dark background of space.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745. This is one of six being studied...
Large sample galaxies of different sizes and shapes, experiencing a lens-like distortion.
A swirling spiral galaxy and bright foreground star (center) dominate a deep field of galaxies in this image of a...
Hundreds of galaxies in a diverse array of shapes and colors are scattered across the dark background of space. Bright stars are visible near the center and in the bottom-right. A large blue-white spiral galaxy can be seen at the top on the right side.
This image shows the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+223, whose light took over 5 billion years to reach us. The...
Large sample galaxies of different sizes and shapes, experiencing a lens-like distortion.
Nearly as deep as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which contains approximately 10,000 galaxies, this image from the Hubble Space...
Small, distant galaxies of myriad shapes--spirals, ellipticals and irregular shapes--against the black background of space.
This view of a massive cluster of galaxies unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some...
Massive cluster of galaxies with a gravitational lensing distortion effect.
Hubble observed galaxy cluster Abell S1063 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) using visible-light filters. Simultaneously, Hubble was able...
Parallel Field Image of Abell S1063
With the final observation of the distant galaxy cluster Abell 370 — some five billion light-years away — the Frontier...
A packed field of galaxies and curved blue streaks and arcs. Large grouping of galaxies warped around what appears to be a giant lens. Each galaxy appears as a glob of light. Bright blue-white foreground star at bottom right.
This Hubble Space Telescope view of a random patch of sky reveals how the universe looks at large: a "wallpaper"...
Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. A trio of spiral galaxies and a couple of bright stars appear in the upper-left corner.
Thousands of galaxies stretching across billions of light-years of space are visible in this deep field image from the Hubble...
Image is filled with distant galaxies in colors of yellow-gold, red, blue, white. Many of the stars and galaxies have a bluish tint.
This Hubble Space Telescope view reveals thousands of galaxies stretching back into time across billions of light-years of space. The...
Image is filled with distant galaxies in colors of yellow-gold, red, blue, white. A clump of multi-colored galaxies that appear larger are visible on the center-right, and another spiral galaxy on the far-left.
This deep, detailed image is the result of the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations for the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic...
Image is filled with distant galaxies in colors of yellow-gold, red, blue, white.
The Hubble Legacy Field represents the largest, most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies in the universe. The image, a combination...
Image is filled with distant galaxies in colors of yellow-gold, red, blue, white. Many of the stars and galaxies have a bluish tint. The field is outlined in white, on a plain black background.