Hubble Deep Field
Campo Profundo del Hubble
- Date
- 1995-1996 · confidence high
- Place
- Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Credited to
- Robert Williams and the STScI team
- People
- 👤 Robert Williams1926–2015
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Ten days of exposure of a seemingly 'empty' patch of sky revealed thousands of galaxies as far back as the early universe, and showed how galaxies evolve over cosmic time.
Image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope; science operations at STScI.
What it led to
- History of cosmic star formation
- Ultra Deep Field and Webb's deep fields
- Public outreach on the scale of the universe