It can be surprisingly difficult to study the Milky Way galaxy while you're inside it, but astronomers are always looking for similar spirals elsewhere in the universe. A team analyzing data from the ...

In January 1996, the Hubble Space Telescope released a picture of part of the sky in the Ursa Major constellation. Known as the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), it offered mankind’s deepest and most detailed ...

Covering a tiny patch of sky spanning less than a tenth of the full moon, the famous "Hubble eXtreme Deep Field" image revealed thousands of galaxies, including objects from the universe infancy. The ...