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- zehrila, on 07/06/2009, -0/+32We are tiny http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg
- christoast, on 07/06/2009, -0/+10Every direction looks the same and we cant be in the center, we only see as far as 13.7 billion years because the light from farther away hasn't reached us yet.
http://crab0.astr.nthu.edu.tw/%7Ehchang/ga2/f2901- ... - funkymonkey68, on 07/06/2009, -0/+9Where can we view the new picture it has taken since the upgrade?
- siyengar, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8"Standing on our microscopic fragment of a grain of sand, we attempt to discover the nature and purpose of the universe which surrounds our home in space and time. Our first impression is something akin to terror. We find the universe terrifying because of it's vast meaningless distances, terrifying because of it's inconceivably long vistas of time which dwarf human history to the twinkling of an eye, terrifying because of our extreme loneliness and because of the material insignificance of our home in space---a millionth part of a grain of sand out of all the sea-sand in the world."
-The Mysterious Universe - James Jean
-Modern science writing -Richard Dawkins - S1ngular1ty1, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8It is still amazing how incomprehensible the vastness of the universe is.
- snugglebunnywit, on 07/06/2009, -2/+9wow.... just wow!
- xyphur, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4Not only has that light not reached us yet, but it has been proposed that after a certain point, it never will. It has been said that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, so fast at the outer edges in fact that the light being emitted from objects in those regions will never make it's way back to us.
Explanation: Even if we assume that the universe is adhering to the theoretical limitation that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, if something was traveling exactly that fast, the light it emitted directly towards us would not only stand still relative to the speed at which the object that emitted it was traveling away from us, but it would theoretically continue to grow ever more distant from us, due to the expansion of the universe as a whole. Thus, the distance between us and the object's emitted light would increase, making it impossible for it to reach us.
Now, knowing this little conundrum, it could be hypothesized that the universe is infinite and that the black areas - that is, areas without light making it's way back to us - in every bit of space we've pointed our most powerful telescopes at are simply just areas that we are unable to see past a certain threshold. The threshold of space expanding at the speed of light... There could very well be objects there. We could even assume realistically that were it not for the fundamental speed-of-light law, if such a scenario were true, we'd be able to observe every one of those objects, regardless of how fast it is distancing itself from us... but because we can't ignore that law, we will simply never (ever) see those objects, should they exist or not. - elijahyossie, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4I really wish I knew more (and was capable of understanding more) about astrophysics.
- AmnesiacJack, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3I wonder how far away those objects are now since we are seeing them where they were13.7 billion years ago, how much space have they added?
- OnAsideNote, on 07/06/2009, -1/+4Video
The most important image ever taken
http://2.0web.tv/index.php?option=com_seyret&t ... - Sveglio, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3This is a very enlightening picture. It's not that easy to conceive the relativity of sizes (or distances) otherwise. Neither the countless planets or stars and everything else assumed to exist all around.
- sampath3, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3This is amazing, the power of technology.
- UselessTrivia, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2That answered a question I've been wondering about forever: How the hubble manages to stare continuously at one spot for like 200 hours. I always thought it would get screwed up by the motion of orbitting or blocked by the earth.
It makes sense now that I see it, that it can just point a few degrees off the poles and watch a spot almost indefinitely. And I'm sure orbital motion introduces a bit of distortion, but when you're pointing at something 12 billion lightyears away it's pretty insubstantial. - AmnesiacJack, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Great Gore ripped off a Carl Sagan quote, not surprised some how.
- GilThielander, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2...who was paraphrasing the late, great, Carl Sagan.
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." - dewyjuhl, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2@.@
- NitrousFlare, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Lol, it's so big it shouldn't exist. Yeah right.
- xyphur, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1add the equal distances (13.7 billion LY) from each section of the distance from horizon edge, to center, to horizon edge, all the way across the image, and you have 54.8 billion light years of distance.
Keep in mind this is only in 2D space, and only on one axis. Now think in 3D... - pahomi, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Suddenly all my modern day problems seem so small. It's good to take a moment and realize how lucky we are to be a part of this wonder...too bad it's only for a small fraction of time...
- S1ngular1ty1, on 07/06/2009, -2/+3Good picture. Everyone assumes we are in the center of the universe but we most likely aren't. Therefore the Universe is probably much older than we think. We just can't see that far yet.
- christoast, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1exactly.
- Yoshiler, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1I doubt it's possible. If so, it would probably be millions of years from now.
- rickygw, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1we probably wont last long enough to make that day a reality.
- Sveglio, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1If these theoretical spots (A & B) were planets or stars, right now they most likely are history!
But there's another issue here...I thought universe had no dimensions 13.7b years ago. Then, how come it took time for their image to reach the Earth? This is supposed to have been done in zero time...
Let alone that these objects (including Earth) didn't even exist then.
Oh damn, I got confused again.... - Sveglio, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Oh yes, this is a very nice remark! Though I don't really understand why the image has to depict 2 objects (A & B)...
- christoast, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Sveglio... you just blew my mind. I have to think about this.
We cant see the start of the big bang, so nothing we see is in zero time. NOW...
Say we see some light that's 13.6 billion years old, that means we must have been already 13.6 billion years ahead of them AT the beginning of the or else it would have already reached us and....
wait i give up. - overridemymind, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Your post needs more Billy Mays Button.
- UselessTrivia, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1I'm not sure anything that awesome has been released yet.
The deal with Hubble is that while anyone can apply for time on the observatory to take images, the images remain confidential for one year. The waiting period is designed to give the researchers a fair period of time to study findings before they become public.
Theoretically anybody can download images from the hubble archive online, but you have to apply for a login. I assume that's to keep the pages from being crawled, hotlinked and downloaded endlessly. - strykefive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1It will be darn cool when one day, we humans can traverse these galaxies like a trip from Detroit to New York.
- Crisender111, on 07/06/2009, -2/+2The Edge of the Universe
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDOnlLngO0 - edwardr3073, on 07/06/2009, -3/+2HOW OLDS THIS VIDEO
- taketheleap, on 07/06/2009, -2/+1"You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home."
- Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a ... - inactive, on 07/06/2009, -3/+0God is AWSOME!!!
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -5/+2OMGZ we r soo so small.
- Levin, on 07/06/2009, -5/+1maybe...
- themastersb, on 07/06/2009, -8/+3I'm am new to these internets. This is the first time I have seen such an image.
- FitteMas, on 07/05/2009, -10/+2Maby we can see out to dog doo 8
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