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- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -5/+107Which one of those planets has the hot green women that Captain Kirk shagged?
- TheDiggMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51If you thought that picture was awesome, then you have to see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw - Junkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Looks like someone leaked Google galaxy beta pics.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39The sheer enormity of our universe blows my pitiful human mind...
Sadly, even if we break the light barrier, we will likely never get to explore even a fraction of the whole universe... it's simply too vast. - Joe091, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24I'm assuming this is part of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field pic. Still, one of the only times where the word "AMAZING" in the title is warranted. Just think about how far away those stars are. Each galaxy has billions of stars. This single photo probably has a thousand galaxies too. Each one of those little white dots in the background is another galaxy, filled with another few billion stars. All in just a few pixel. Insane.
- ldkronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22@hilbertspaceboy
Well, I suppose there always that slim chance that super advanced aliens will come here and share their tech with us and we'll be cruising the entire universe in a few years. - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -15/+36I was thinking of this http://www.digg.com/space/How_Hubble_Killed_God
- watmore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"Where is Earth on this picture??"
Behind you. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+35"I'm slightly saddened that the technology to get us there probably won't be available in my lifetime."
Probably??
Gee, ya think???
LOL - 4th3157, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17It makes you realise the insignificance of all the petty arguments and wars we have down here.
- sonaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16We hit the life sustaining planet jackpot, but if you think about it, we have no living neighbors that we can see. Imagine being able to see living beings going about their lives on other planets that we couldn't reach. Imagine they could see back and we learned to communicate.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"I'm slightly saddened that the technology to get us there probably won't be available in my lifetime."
we are already in something just as beautiful, called the Local Group, which includes the milky, andromeda, and others.
*going* to that place pictured won't make for a terrific view, for each of those galaxies pictured is just like our own. compare this to say living in *****, tennessee, having never seen a satellite image before, and getting a satellite image of *****, oklahoma. you may think it's pretty because it's the first satellite image you've seen, but if you actually go to *****, oklahoma you won't see the same beauty you saw from the distance.
that's part of the beauty of it all. it's like looking at something just like we live in, but far away. - Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14It was good until numa guy came along.
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I never said I thought the article was good, I was just pointing out a similar picture in a different digg story.
- 4th3157, on 10/12/2007, -14/+26Quite easily thanks. God is an invention made up by humans to explain stuff that we currently can't explain. Just because space is massive doesn't automatically mean that a 'god' exists. It's a complete non-sequitur.
- benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11one more stunning reminder of how insignificant we are
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13We are looking at a picture of ourselves as we were 450million years ago. How is that even possible?
- Robstah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Full sized, JPG (6672x6340 14MB):
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2004/28/images/b/formats/full_jpg.jpg - vermin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Actually, the sphere of the observable universe from our vantage point on earth has a diameter of roughly 94 billion light-years. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
- enicholas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14How can one look at the ocean and say that Poseidon doesn't exist? How can one look at a volcano and say Hephaestus doesn't exist?
Humans are naturally predisposed to look at amazing things and say "God did it". We used to believe that thunder, rain, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and many other natural phenomena were caused by gods. In every single case, when we actually studied the phenomenon in question and seriously questioned how it happened, we realized that it was perfectly natural. Poseidon, Vulcan, Nut, Ra and all of the rest are just made-up stories to explain things that seem amazing.
God, too, is just a made-up story to explain the amazing fact of our presence here in the universe. The simple answer is that we don't really know how it happened; we don't really know why the universe exists or how life came to be on this planet. And so the simple-minded among us, unable to accept "we don't know" as an answer, make up stories to help them sleep at night. The modern story of "God created the universe" is no different than than the ancient "Zeus creates thunder". Believing in Zeus didn't help us understand thunder, and believing in God won't help us understand the universe. It is time to abandon these silly fairy tales and actually try to answer the questions, which thankfully is exactly what scientists are doing. - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I've said it before, but I love our universe!
- johnry07, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16if by "god" you mean "the big bang" then yes, it is amazing how powerful the big bang was
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11My god... it's full of galaxies...
- tievolu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@mccake:
We're in the Milky Way, about two thirds the way out from the centre, but you can still see it if you look along the plane of the disc. On a really dark night you can see a faint fuzzy area of light crossing the entire sky - that's the Milky way.
On long exposure photographs, it looks like this:
http://mishuna.image.pbase.com/v3/95/519495/1/48433990.ISS_MILKYWAY_bush_update.jpg
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~rkirshner/MilkyWay.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jhowson3/Astro/2005/Sagittarius-MilkyWay.JPG - HouseofEl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10When you think about the fact that the Hubble Deep field is the equivalent of a grain a sand held at arms length, it really puts things into perspective.
- TechCF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Oh, this stuff make me want to quit WoW and start to play EVE again
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The dominating feature of the image is the elliptical galaxy ESO 325-G004, which spans about 100,000 light years and contains about 100 billion stars. A rather prosaic name for something so amazing, but fascinating nonetheless
Source: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070208.html - Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Lukevesque I don't suppose you've ever sloshed water on something and thought "wow, that's looks really cool" before? Loads of 'accidents' are beautiful when viewed, you don't have to go and bring in a philosophical belief to explain them.
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16I know. It almost looks too amazing to be real. Stopped me dead in my tracks as I thought to myself: That's ***** amazing. Our universe is incredible.
*Sigh* I'm slightly saddened that the technology to get us there probably won't be available in my lifetime. - fifty50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Everything looks perfect from far away.
- merr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's like a Total Perspective Vortex to a very small degree.
I'm suddenly craving fairy cake. - Baddox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wow, that picture sure is out of date.
- southernmost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7All I can say is, "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
- mrsmegz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If the speed of light in space is constant, then that means the light left those galaxies around the beginning of life on earth. Its mind boggling how far of that is.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7they wouldn't even have to turn a degree off. this picture is only a ultra-small fraction of a degree. just to make you feel smaller.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6also remarkable:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011007.html
each is a galaxy, and the gravity causes the light to come back around again, so you see some galaxies twice. - cyberwiz01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Google Galaxy" == Celestia
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ - vermin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, there would be. They've done a handful of these survey's, and each one has produced similar results.
- vermin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's not so far fetched an idea. Some of the closest stars are around 10 light years away or less, so a round trip communication sequence would only take roughly 20 years, assuming someone's there with the means to reply. Soon we'll be able to detect earth-sized planets around those close stars. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Space_Observatory and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corot_%28space_mission%29
- Fladrif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Awesome Video!! well except the kid lip-syncing
- hungryhomer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2004/07/images/a/formats/print.jpg
- bouche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i don't think that's the same image.
- fifty50, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9But... what if God DOESN'T love us? If there is a God, how could He create a universe so sickeningly HUGE and then notice this tiny little speck of dust and all of it's tiny insignificant life forms running around killing each other and depleting the speck of dust's resources and think "Hey, of all the other ***** I've created, I love these little guys the most!" IF there's a God, don't you think He'd look at us and think "damn... I ***** up!" and go ahead and create life forms on other planets who He loved more? Maybe He does love us, or maybe He's just mildly satisfied with his creation. How many times have you created something and just thought "meh, this kinda sucks actually". How about you leave an apple core laying around for a little while and see how much bacteria you can get to grow on it. You, indirectly, created this bacteria and their little eco system. Does that make you a God? Does that make you want to love the life which you created? Or do you just ignore it and throw it in the trash?
Or maybe there is no God (or any other higher power) and we were just randomly created. Yeah, I like that one the best. - klipsch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'll go out on a limb and say that a career as an astronomer is not in the cards for you.
- SyntheticMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can't stand that fat kid lip synching
- abxy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, the hubble's not in orbit. And technically, the hubble is looking 450 million years into the past since that's how long it's taking for the light of those galaxies to reach us. It's sort of wild when you realize that're you're literally staring into the past from the present. -- Amazing Universe we live in.
- fifty50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's not a picture OF Earth, it's a picture FROM Earth. Read the headline. It's a shot from Hubble looking so deep into space that it's seeing stars which emitted their light over 450 million years ago, and that's the light we're seeing now. Chances are, some of those stars died a long time ago.
- Codename, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm going to walk there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6ICSU, you think all people in the Bible were white? Do you know a lot of native middle-eastern people to be white? How about getting your facts straight before commenting...
- fweepa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4they don't come til around 2060, remember? we have to figure out how to travel faster than light first...
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