Hubble Legacy Field One of the Most Important Images of All Time

Since its launch in 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope has completed a million and a half observations of nearly 50000 celestial objects Using a mosaic of 7500 images it tells the story of our universe going back 133 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