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Photo of 450 million light-years from Earth - AMAZING

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov — This stunning group of galaxies is far, far away - about 450 million light-years from planet Earth - cataloged as galaxy cluster Abell S0740.

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  • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -90/+10It just looks like a bunch of different pictures of various stars and galaxies put on a black background. Although it IS from nasa.gov, so I guess I look like a ***** idiot.
    • flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -74/+10yeah I think this is the same picture from the digg story "this disproves god!" or something.
    • flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -15/+36I was thinking of this http://www.digg.com/space/How_Hubble_Killed_God
    • rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -5/+107Which one of those planets has the hot green women that Captain Kirk shagged?
    • mushishi, on 10/12/2007, -37/+4flamingmb:

      That article was *****. Apparently religion does not have a monopoly in illogic, arguments from incredulity, and stupidity.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • hilbertspaceboy, 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
    • EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -13/+9450 million LY isn't *that* far away as far as space goes. The universe is what 10 billion LY wide?

      10000mly/450mly = 22% = there's stuff further away.
    • 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.
    • jinglee, on 10/12/2007, -23/+2Where is Earth on this picture??????????????????????????
    • 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.
    • 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
    • Lukevesque, on 10/12/2007, -29/+5How could this happen by accident?

      Tell me something this beautiful and magnificent was an accident.

      A beautiful work of art.
    • 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.
    • superpotential, 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.
    • watmore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"Where is Earth on this picture??"

      Behind you.
    • ajck, on 10/12/2007, -13/+11Sorry, can't resist:
      http://www.disclosureproject.org
      For all those amongst you who seek the truth.

      Incidentally, Ben Rich, ex-head of Lockheed Skunkworks said (from Wikipedia but widely known elsewhere) "Shortly before his death he delivered a speech in which he stated, "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity.... Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do""
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Rich

      We have anti gravity, we have flying discs, we have the means to "jump" across vast distances of space etc. I've been researching this for 20 years, and heard it many other places than the Disclosure Project and Ben Rich. Bit difficult for some people to accept though...

      Cheers, m'dears!
    • slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I enjoyed it the first few times it was on front page. The next several times it got old.
    • fifty50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Everything looks perfect from far away.
    • joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@fifty50
      Yeah...... at least a good portion of the planets which go round the billions of stars, which are in that picture, are SURE to be brown and sludgy.
    • Baddox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wow, that picture sure is out of date.
    • Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1we are in nature's head....

      nature = god / god = nature (the way everything works)

      genious is simple.. and so is the answer...
  • 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
    • inarguable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude, that video blows that original pic away! Thanks! That Hubble Ultra-Deep Field is phenomenal!
    • SyntheticMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I can't stand that fat kid lip synching
    • Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14It was good until numa guy came along.
    • enthused1286, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome vid
    • Markpdotcom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"It is the single most important image ever taken by a Manatee!"

      Wow, I never knew they were in to astronomy! :)
    • Fladrif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Awesome Video!! well except the kid lip-syncing
    • celestial, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the crab nebula is cool as hell
    • joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I don't understand how some one can put that crap in the middle of that video.
      "Oh I know....... I'll put the single most annoying thing ever created by man.... in a video of the greatest images ever taken"
      WHY!!!!! WHY DO IT!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT PERSON!!!
    • Tetranitrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So thats where they got the windows screen saver from. (5:10)
    • ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@joedoo:

      That brief clip of the most annoying thing on the internet represents the entire incompetence and ignorance of mankind. It's there to provide contrast. To remind people that life isn't about YouTube and the last episode of American Idol.
    • joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's hardly an excuse. Also it goes on for a long enough time so that I needed to skip past it...... 1 second is enough to make the point.
    • xperienc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks for the link, great vid.
  • Junkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Looks like someone leaked Google galaxy beta pics.
    • cyberwiz01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Google Galaxy" == Celestia

      http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
    • ElwoodHerring, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Celestia is amazing. Try selecting a distant star to "fly" to, then press the "a" key a couple of dozen times until your speed (bottom left corner of your screen) says 1 ly/s (One light year per second). Notice that even at that amazing speed, you still won't see anything move. So much for starfield screensavers and Star Trek-type viewscreens showing stars whizzing by. 1 ly/s = 21,163,006,235 MILLION miles per hour - and still nothing appears to move.

      Yep - the universe is quite big.
  • BuffalOBisoN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5'gonna go back in time!'
  • 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.
    • Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3That's so far out, man.
      Gimme another toke. zzzzzzzz
  • AnotherCanadian, on 10/12/2007, -17/+12its so cool that we can go back 450 million years like that.

    corse the christian right will say that god placed the light there 6000 years ago>.
  • merr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's like a Total Perspective Vortex to a very small degree.

    I'm suddenly craving fairy cake.
  • harbl, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6/r/ higher res. Preferably one I can zoom in far enough to see Earth on.
  • bringbackshred, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4OMG PHOTOSHOP.
  • catchphrase, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0I love this ship.

    catch
  • 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.
    • Doug_E_Style, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is unless you believe ID ***** that the earth is 10000 years old. You would think that anybody who accepts the speed of light as constant (299 792 458 m / s) would be able to comprehend how insane the ID claim is.
  • TechCF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Oh, this stuff make me want to quit WoW and start to play EVE again
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I've said it before, but I love our universe!
  • 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?
  • eon07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like that triangle constellation at the bottom with the brightest star smack bang in the middle
  • captaineuphoria, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11My god... it's full of galaxies...
  • techneo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I thought we have seen everything .. hmm there is so much left to explore ..
  • benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11one more stunning reminder of how insignificant we are
  • bossmanthe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Bit of Lens Flare and some glow effects and TADA! But still cool. :)
  • manatee, on 10/12/2007, -26/+11Amazing how powerful God is...
    • Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5... and Trolls on Digg
    • 4th3157, on 10/12/2007, -12/+10Powerful through dedicated hard work and effort or just magically endowed automatically for no reason?

      I see no reason to believe in a 'god', however, if there was one there'd still be no reason to worship its magical powers just because it had them. It's not as if it actually did anything to deserve those powers, a bit like a monarch who is just born into power, I find the concept totally disgusting.

      The universe is much more marvellous without a god to muddy the waters. Far more awe inspiring. A magical space pixie can do anything, there's nothing amazing about that. A natural universe is far more fascinating.
    • 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
    • ericesque, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7Okay, 4th3157, assume for a moment that there is a God. Assume that He does have the power to create the universe and everything in it-- including you-- at a whim.

      Now consider, He is not worshiped because He CAN do all of this, but because He DID do all of this-- He created you and chose to love you.

      Have you ever rejected somebody just because they were different than you? Maybe they weren't cool enough or they had poor hygiene... How could anyone be worthy of the presence of the creator of the universe? Yet, God does more than allow us to be in His presence when we worship Him. When we ask for His forgiveness, He humbles Himself and pulls us back out of the mud. He's WAY up there, we're so far down here... but He comes down and rescues us from our sin. That is righteousness. That is love. THAT is reason enough to worship God.

      I've got about 3 seconds before I'm dugg down...but it's worth it.
    • nosyt, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6stfu, god boy.
    • 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.
    • ericesque, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5God didn't create us haphazardly with the rest of the universe. God didn't create us and THEN choose us. Each and every person was known by God long before they were born. How do we know that these statements are true? How do we know that God does in fact love us? He gave us the Bible and laid it all out.

      If everything in the universe is a completely random occurrence, then tell me why would you care if someone else dies? If your best friend was shot in front of you, why would you care? They are simply a random collection of atoms. Nothing more. They have no purpose. (S)He would simply consume and then die anyway. Why not save them the agonies and stresses of life? That pit you would get in your stomach from seeing a friend die in front of you is because it is ingrained in all people that there IS more to life than the moment at hand. There is more than the physical world we live in. I have a much harder time believing that there is no reason or purpose for my existence. If you want to chalk it up to insecurity, that's your call. But ask yourself this: If not for God, what can I possibly live for that has any true meaning in it?

      We can apparently see 450 million light years into our universe. It's time to start looking past your nose to find out why we're here at all.
    • papatenor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Are you saying that the only reason you don't kill and murder and rape and pillage is because God is watching you? You shouldn't confuse HUMAN compassion and logic for divine gifts of harmony.
    • hybridcreation, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@ ericesque

      Wow...hook, line and sinker!!!

      God gave us the Bible? More like man wrote the Bible.
    • hcl40u, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You know what? Maybe God is a Scientist and he is too busy in his heaven to pay attention to this little grain of sand called Earth.
    • 4th3157, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ericesque

      "Okay, 4th3157, assume for a moment that there is a God. Assume that He does
      have the power to create the universe and everything in it-- including you--
      at a whim."

      'Whim:Noun - a fanciful impulse, or whimsical idea'

      Ok, let's use that as the premise.

      "Now consider, He is not worshiped because He CAN do all of this, but because
      He DID do all of this-- He created you and chose to love you."

      Why does that deserve worship? Does a child worship his parents in the same way?
      No, yet they created the child and didn't choose to love it, they just love it
      because it's a biological impulse. If love is a choice then it's not true love,
      it's forced.

      "Have you ever rejected somebody just because they were different than you?"

      Yeah, that's because I'm human with human foibles. One would hope that god
      would be above these petty frailties.

      "Maybe they weren't cool enough or they had poor hygiene... How could anyone
      be worthy of the presence of the creator of the universe?"

      Easy. I don't consider people who are worse off than me as not worthy of my
      presence. If I reject someone because they are different than me then that's
      because of my imperfections. If god has such an ego problem then that's pretty
      stupid.

      "Yet, God does more than allow us to be in His presence when we worship Him.
      When we ask for His forgiveness,"

      Forgiveness from what? Why should anyone have to ask for forgiveness just because
      god has been appointed as the magic space pixie ruler? There's no external law that
      dictates such silly demands.

      "He humbles Himself and pulls us back out of the mud. He's WAY up there,
      we're so far down here... but He comes down and rescues us from our sin.
      That is righteousness. That is love. THAT is reason enough to worship God."

      See what you've done? You've taken a simple concept (god) and introduced silly
      dogma (sin) without any explanation, rationalisation or evidence. We do not need
      to be rescued from 'sin', whatever that means. We are not broken or fallen people,
      we are human beings, we behave according to how we are created. We are not perfect
      but we don't need a magic space pixie to forgive us to save us from the eternal
      torture camp that he's set up for people who don't believe what he wants them to
      believe.

      If you can't see the total absurdity of your beliefs then I pity you. If you think
      that the appaling suffering in this world doesn't prove that there isn't a caring
      god then I pity you. There is zero evidence to believe in god. The attributes of
      god that you give are completely illogical, unprovable made up nonsense. I urge
      you to actually read your bible and listen to what is written in there. The sheer
      evil that is done by god and in the name of god that is documented in the bible
      is proof positive that it doesn't exist.
  • 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
  • SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2It is both a picture of 450 million light years away from Earth's orbit, and from a particle on the inside of an atom in your body.
  • shockoj7, on 10/12/2007, -26/+10how can one look at this at say there is no God....?
    • 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.
    • Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6"how can one look at this at say there is no God....?"

      It mostly just takes gravity, an uneven distribution of matter, and energy leaving the celestial bodies in various wavelengths. And laws of physics that cause it to clump together in the ways we see. I don't see room for a God here, but I do agree that where the laws of physics come from is unknown, so maybe that's where He is, but then these would only be indirect products of His power. :-p

      Personally, I think a fractal can look pretty damn cool, especially those made by skilled people, and all that's really involved is mathematical rules. To me, the difference here is mostly just that we aren't talking maths and formulae, but physical laws instead. So I think just using esthetical beauty as a reason is a fallacy here.
    • ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Actually, how can you say there is one who created all that and that focused on a particular group of (white) people on one tiny planet who started to worship it after thousands of years of human existence.
    • almightystoph, 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...
    • jmp120, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@almightystoph, wow, thats your argument against his legitimate response to shockoj's question? You think pointing out an insignificant adjective which he put in parenthesis debunks his statement? You need to take some introductory logic classes.
    • 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.
    • nosyt, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1***** moron, or shall I say mormon? synonymous. If you believe in god, then you would also believe that the universe is only 6,000 years old. If you can even read, or grasp a single ounce of astronomy, then you'll understand that pictures like these among hundreds of others disprove that fairy tale of yours. Go play on the freeway.
    • Mark4483, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Why is it religiously inspired comments are always dugg down? When they are stated tastefully, I think they deserve to be read and thought about, regardless of your beliefs.

      People have the right to digg down whatever you want, that's the beauty of this site, however just because you don't agree with someone else's beliefs doesn't mean their views should always be shot down. I guess this just doesn't sit right with me. Consider this for one second the next time you digg down a religious comment (or before you digg this comment down).
    • hybridcreation, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6@ enicholas

      I would digg you 10 times if I could. My thoughts EXACTLY!!!

      Face it people...life on this planet is the result of a chance happening when the right set of chemicals was introduced to the right set of physical circumstances. Making up all-knowing men in the clouds that waved their hand and made everything that we see may be enough to satisfy some (the weak minded) people's question as to why and how we got here. For me, it way to pre-packaged and easily acceptable. Someone looks at that picture or life here on Earth and says "How did it get here?" Someone else responds "God made it." The first person says "Oh...OK." and goes on happily with their life and never give it a second thought. Sorry...that's not good enough for me. And I'm glad to see that there are more and more people that feel the same way.

      But never the less...this universe is beautiful and it blows my mind every time I think about it.
  • JimDinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Either way you look at it,it does make you think about why we are on this little ball of water and air.
    • 4th3157, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17It makes you realise the insignificance of all the petty arguments and wars we have down here.
  • hazelnoot, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Is this real or is it Photoshop (and will it blend)?
  • YellowStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Assuming a star-faring civilization needs "only" 10,000 Earth years to travel somehow between one habitable planet and the next closest habitable planet within the galaxy and 500 years is needed to develop a new planet colony to space-travel, it should take about 3 million years to completely colonize the Milky Way. Our galaxy is billions of years old. We shouldn't expect to be the only intelligent life forms in the galaxy but then again...where are the (possibly) ancient space-faring aliens? I'm confused.
    • 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...
  • Kajman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Very cool picture.
    Does anyone know what that really bright light just right of center is?
    It's significantly brighter than everything else in the photo.
    • Cenobite, 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
  • abxy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4from Google calculator:

    query: 450,000,000 light years in miles
    result: 450 000 000 light years = 2.64532492 × 10^21 miles

    Amazing that we can see galaxies over 2,645,324,920,000,000,000,000 (2 sextillion, 645 quintillion, 324 quadrillion, 920 trillion) miles away from Earth -- so far away that it takes one photon of light 450 million years to reach our galaxy. We can only imagine what's out there.
  • oribm2001, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1looks like a cheesy photoshop to me :)
  • cumbrowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here is the post for everybody who wants to know more and not just look at an image,
    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=23242
  • CanIGetAWitness, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0I bet the Apple iPhone will get reception all the way out there.

    Steve Jobs
  • hilbertspaceboy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3I think I see Jesus!
    • quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It is actually surprising that stargazers haven't picked out a pattern of stars that resembles a human face, or other human-influenced picture/icon/shape.

      Oh wait, never mind, they're called constellations.
  • Pericle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Hmmm I don't think we are alone! :D We never were.
  • Thex1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This the main galaxy in this image is also reportedly providing a gravitational lense for objects directly beyond it as well...
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070207093405.htm
  • EzarKun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3what if Hubble turned a degree off, and took another pic.
    Will there be another pic of thousands of galaxies??

    Thinking of this pic always me me feel small:(:(:(
    • 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.
    • superpotential, 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.
  • Sunsetter, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Eh, looks exactly how I thought it would. I am not impressed.
    • nharpe, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0I guess all you gotta do to get to the front page these days is put "AMAZING" in the title. About 99% of the stuff that says AMAZING should really say LAME.
  • emigre, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0ummm..that's photoshop and very cliched star-crosses too.
  • ThisIsBob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I often wonder if there is intelligent out there, and if some of it is forbidden to eat pork.
  • southernmost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7All I can say is, "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
  • kalle437, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Looks like a fake ;)
  • bouche, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4anyone else set this as their new desktop wallpaper?
  • superpotential, 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.
  • reiner15, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Imagine being in one of those other galaxies, and instead of having frozen planets as our neighbors... they would have life, and we would be able to travel between planets. How I wish it were possible.
  • michaeldillon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Larry Page and Sergey Brin to their kids:

    "Someday, this will all be yours."
  • RMD78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That picture just increases the odds that there is intelligent life out there (Drake Equation)...whether we ever find them is an entirely different story. It could be like 2 ships passing in the night.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%27s_equation
  • Labradane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Watching this picture makes you feel very insignificant compared to the universe.
    • PoorYorick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I disagree. You don't seem any more insignificant now that I've watched the picture.
  • UnclePunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1In NYC you can barely make out ANY stars with all the light pollution. Nice to see pics like this...
  • rumit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amazing.
    What telescope was used to see 450 million light years away? Hubble?
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