... Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Deep Field - humanity's most distant yet optical view of the Universe. ... The prominent dust lane and halo of stars and globular clusters give this galaxy its name. ... In December and early January, Comet Hale-Bopp was too near the Sun to be easily visible from Earth. ... Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers exploring the Virgo Cluster of galaxies have now found about 600 red giant stars adrift in intergalactic space. ... January 1999...