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The image that changed our view of the Universe forever BBC Global
In 1995, a machine called Hubble peered into a small patch of empty sky for ten days straight.
For the scientists on Earth, it was a huge, expensive gamble.
What emerged from Hubble's patient gaze was a glittering array of 3,000 galaxies and billions of years of history staring right back at us.
Made with thanks to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore.