Portal:Astronomy/Picture/Week 20 2006

The Hubble Deep Field was produced in 1995 from images accumulated when the Hubble Space Telescope observed one very small patch of sky over 10 days. Almost every object seen in the HDF is a distant galaxy; only a few local stars contaminate the field. The HDF gave astronomers significant insights into the earliest stages of galaxy formation, and was later supplemented by the Hubble Deep Field South and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field