The unveiling today of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a spectacular new set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, brings mixed emotions to astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...
International teams of astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to explore the distant corner of the Universe first revealed in the iconic images of the Hubble ...
The first of a set of unprecedented, super-deep views of the universe from an ambitious collaborative program called The Frontier Fields is being released today at the 223rd meeting of the American ...
Most of Hubble's famous images were taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). WFPC2 was the replacement installed on the first service mission. The ...
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery in December 1999. Credit: NASA In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which ...