Hundreds of images snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together to create a rich tapestry of thousands of galaxies. Astronomers created the panoramic view as part of a five-year project called AEGIS (All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey). Eight of the world’s best space- and ground-based observatories, including Hubble, made surveys inside one patch of the night sky with an area about twice the size of the full Moon. The observatories peered up to 9 billion light years away to see about 150.000 galaxies evolving when the universe was much younger than today. Hubble recorded images of more than 50.000 galaxies in visible light by taking more than 500 separate exposures.
Watch a MPEG-video of the AEGIS strip beginning with its location in the constellation Ursa Major (courtesy NASA/ESA/L. Barranger/STScI):
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/2007/06/540-Video.html

Hubble Pans Across Heavens to Harvest 50.000 Evolving Galaxies

AEGIS – All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey