Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer and the first person to discover
that there are large-scale galaxies beyond the Milky Way and that they are
distributed almost uniformly in all directions. At right is a picture
of him with the telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory where he discovered
what is now known as Hubble's Law. He never got to see his namesake
because of his death in1953.
Below is an image from the Hubble Deep Field observation. It is astounding
that when they pointed the space telescope at what is for all intents and
purposes a blank speck of sky to any ground based telescope, the astronomers
uncovered thousands of galaxies that were developing billions of years ago.
From this data and more like it on the way, perhaps we will come closer
to unraveling the mystery of how the universe came to look like it does
today. 
See the latest pictures taken with the Hubble space telescope.