Hubble Legacy Field: One of the Most Important Images of All Time
Since it's launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has completed a million and a half observations of nearly 50,000 celestial objects. Using a mosaic of 7,500 images, it tells the story of our universe going back 13.3 billion years, nearly to the beginning of time. It joins a group of images that, in their day, profoundly altered our view of society, of each other, and the world around us.
Since it's launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has completed a million and a half observations of nearly 50,000 celestial objects. Using a mosaic of 7,500 images, it tells the story of our universe going back 13.3 billion years, nearly to the beginning of time. It joins a group of images that, in their day, profoundly altered our view of society, of each other, and the world around us.
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