MACS J0416 Parallel Field (Frontier Fields)

A dazzling array of galaxies are scattered throughout this Hubble Space Telescope deep field image. Spiral and elliptical galaxies seem to co-mingle with small, misshapen galaxies. In reality, this image provides a core sample of space, drilling deeper and deeper into the universe. This parallel field was captured as part of Hubble's Frontier Fields project, which used the combined power of natural "gravitational lenses" caused by massive galaxy clusters and Hubble's ability to create long-exposure deep field images to see galaxies that would normally be far beyond the reach of telescopes.