In December 1995 the Hubble Space Telescope pointed at an apparently empty patch of sky near the Big Dipper, about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length, and exposed for 10 days. The image revealed around 3,000 galaxies, many of them very young and far away, some seen as they were over 12 billion years ago. It showed that the universe is filled with galaxies in every direction and changed ideas about how they grew. Later deep fields reached even farther, and the James Webb Space Telescope did so again in 2022.
Before and after
- 12 November 1995Constitution of Azerbaijan
- 21 November 1995Dayton Agreement
- 21 November 1995Release of GIMP
- 22 November 1995Release of Toy Story
- December 1995The Hubble Deep Field
- 2 December 1995Launch of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
- 4 December 1995Creation of JavaScript
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- 1996Creation of Visual Basic Script
More in Universe & space
- 4 October 1957Launch of Sputnik 1
- 22 October 1969Discovery of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- 14 September 1974Discovery of Leda
- 28 July 1989Discovery of Galatea
- 19 January 2006Launch of New Horizons
- 26 June 2012Discovery of Styx
The era
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