Day six Hubble Ultra Deep Field
>> The most famous image of the universe ever taken is this image taken by Hubble Telescope in 2003. 10 000 different
galaxies can be seen in this image, some of them is only lights from 13 billion year old galaxies, long gone by today.
Astonishing. Simply astonishing! And to think how many other forms of life MUST live out there...consider the billions of stars in our galaxy, further pushed by the fact this image has thousands upon thousands of galaxies! We are truly worthless.
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Denver's getting infill like it's 1999...
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"Dazzled by the needles of light stitching the water, I turned to watch him watch them. I noticed his eyelashes were reflected in his eyes, like awning in windowpanes. As I tried to make sense of that reflection, I found I could not look away. His irises were brown, clouding into orange with brighter flecks around his pupils. Then it became as important not to look as to look, I feared I would be lost in rush of bronze motes."
its crazy to think of how many billions of stars in the billion galaxies there are out there....
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I think it was this nebula that was visible in the sky during medieval times, even during the day. Here they have a 3864x3864 pixel version, as well as a 30MB full size version: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images...heic0515a.html
The Hubble deep field photo is simply incomprehenible. You are looking at thousands of galaxies, each of them light years large, located at a distance that defies time, with billions of stars among each of them and an unimagineable number of worlds among them. Despite all this, that photo is just a tiny morsel of the sky
I get a very existential feeling looking at these, like nothing matters (in a good way!), or like a huge weight is lifted.
It makes an annoying project at work hanging over me go poof into nothing. It will pass.
Amazing and mind-blowing. It makes me sad in a way, though...traveling the stars like in Star Trek is still so unattainable by our current technology. We are still stuck on this miserable rock of a planet we call Earth.
The fact everything is moving farther apart just makes it worse.