... Credit: R. Williams, The HDF Team ( STScI ), NASA Explanation: Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Deep Field - one of humanity's most distant optical views of the Universe . ... To make the Deep Field image , astronomers selected an uncluttered area of the sky in the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Bear) and pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a single spot for 10 days accumulating and combining many separate exposures. ... Will the Universe End in a Big Rip . ...