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Reports on the unveiling of photographs of the distant Universe that are the sharpest and most detailed ever recorded. Use of the Hubble Space Telescope; Role of Holland Ford in the photography; Number of galaxies detected by the telescope.

Reports on the picture of galaxies near the handle of the Big Dipper taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image of galaxies of all ages; Information that can be taken from the Hubble Deep Field; Version of the picture unveiled at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society; Determination of the distances of galaxies from Earth.

Reports on an image of sky near the constellation Sextans which appears to be empty but really contains numerous extremely faint and remote galaxies. How the image was taken by the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope in Chile; Process that was used to obtain the image; What the image shows.