The Hubble Deep Field: Looking Back In Time

The Hubble Space Telescope has made over 1.5 million observations since its launch in 1990, capturing stunning subjects such as the Eagle Nebula and producing data that has been featured in almost 18,000 scientific articles. But no image has revolutionized the way we understand the universe as much as the Hubble Deep Field.

Taken over the course of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Deep Field captured roughly 3,000 distant galaxies varying in their stages of evolution, stunning the world. This video features some of the scientists and engineers that work on Hubble, and how the Hubble Deep Field changed everything.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Lead Producer and Editor
Paul Morris

Producer
James Leigh

Director of Photography:
James Ball

Sound Recordist:
Alex Jennings

Production Assistant:
Lucy Lund

GSFC Support:
Lynn Bassford
Maureen Disharoon
James Jeletic
Jeannine Kashif
Erin Kisliuk

Additional Visualizations:
Compact galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Pan of GOODS field containing distant dwarf galaxies forming stars at an incredible rate: Credit: NASA & ESA

Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time: Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Summers (STScI)

Speedthrough of galaxies added to deep field image: Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand; Sonification: @SYSTEMSounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

Music Credits:
"Earth’s Orbit" by Andreas Andreas Bolldén [STIM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.

“Planetary Exploration” by Richard Andrew Canavan [PRS] via Sound Pocket Music [PRS], and Universal Production Music.



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[mzkitty]

This is what science ..is all about, thank-you, Hubble!

[cornbreadfedkirkpatrick]

They need a book filled with pictures from Hubble

[anjali]

Science is great and amusing 🚀🚀☄️🚀🌌🌌☄️

[FreakyLeek]

Amazing piece of engineering giving us so many beautiful images.

[eyesac]

I can't wait to see what James Webb can do

[namarasolangelisboadealmei]

Que imagens espetaculares. Valeu NASA 👍😁🇧🇷

[Martmi]

What if they did a deep field collecting light staring at a spot for an entire month straight. Or even a year?

[mackenja]

I wish more people found this to be interesting.

[sarojinichaudhury]

I would like an uninterrupted clear, most gorgeous view ....only to be wondered at ....

[NECRO]

I believe Hubble should get done with all of its current projects and then for his final days stare at one tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny location and see what’s out there.

[ShivamSharmabtp]

They saw lot of shinning objects.. How they know they are galaxies and not just other stars ?

[waterfall]

Artificial satellites, alien, human, colonies. I open my mind to that and I close.

[OldschoolFlaBoy]

And scientists say there is no God wow