Hubble to Look Deeper into the Cosmos

The Hubble Space Telescope's iconic "Deep Field" photo wowed the world in 1996 by revealing a huge collection of galaxies hiding inside a patch of the sky that looked like nothing more than blank space. Now NASA plans to image six more "empty" bits of sky for a whole new set of deep fields that could revolutionize astronomy once again.

Hubble captured the Deep Field by staring at the same point over many hours, letting photons of light from extremely distant objects slowly pile up to reveal celestial bodies that would otherwise be too faint to see.

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Since the original photo's release, Hubble looked even longer at the same spot to…
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