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- inactive, on 09/11/2009, -1/+22Thank you for providing such good detail in the description :) A very interesting apod I must say.
- scallon, on 09/11/2009, -2/+15how anyone can look at an image like that and think we are the only planet with life on it is mind boggling.
- metik, on 09/11/2009, -1/+5My mind still cannot get over the size of the universe. I get sad knowing that i will never get to see/visit these places close up.
- Astrad, on 09/11/2009, -0/+3"You Lie!"
- the2989, on 09/11/2009, -1/+3The new Hubble camera is kicking some ass! I hope they do another deep field picture, the Ultra Deep Field is pretty grainy.
- dVerge, on 09/11/2009, -1/+3This is the best APOD ever!
- Sexercise, on 09/11/2009, -1/+3The Universe is some cool *****. I'm quite disappointed that we are stuck on this rock until we develop a LOT further.
- cr42yr1ch, on 09/11/2009, -1/+3Depends what you mean by "false colour"; the wide field camera detects light at visible wavelengths (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Camera_3) then recombines them to create an image. This is just like your eye or a normal film or digital camera. As all of these respond to different wavelengths in different ways they all create different "false colour" images, but all look similar to true colour.
Landsat and similar satellite images work differently, they are using infra-red wavelengths (which plants reflect strongly and is less affected by atmospheric haze) and then map it to green to make it look as a human would see. Generally this is not how the hubble works. - detcade, on 09/11/2009, -0/+2"The Universe is Big. Really big. It may seem like a long way to the corner chemist, but compared to the Universe, that's peanuts."
Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Statistically, there really /has/ to be some form of life on another planet /somewhere/. - detcade, on 09/11/2009, -0/+2"Think of all the gods created in all those galaxies, and they are all wrong."
What? - Bobski, on 09/12/2009, -0/+1Hubble's Deep Field images, where the telescope aims at some of the darkest areas in the starfield and leaves the aperture open over a month then reveals countless galaxies, is awe filled damning evidence we could not possibly be alone. The odds are "(in Sagan's voice) Billions and Billions" against.
- palehorse864, on 09/11/2009, -1/+2I believe this is in the Urquel constellation.
http://flywithbats.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/jwh ... - k7jeb, on 09/11/2009, -0/+1" ...in this stunning image from the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope..." And the hits just keep coming from the BIG HST!!
- palehorse864, on 09/11/2009, -1/+2Yeah me too. The images are great, but I would love to see side by sides of the pure visible light image.
- TuneRaider, on 09/11/2009, -1/+2Obligatory digg for YABAP (yet another breathtaking astronomy pic).
- Web2point1, on 09/11/2009, -0/+1Yes but why does it have to look like a kid colored it with crayons...
- k7jeb, on 09/11/2009, -0/+1I can... pretty easily, actually. Then again, I can look at it and think I am looking at the stars and planets of a highly advanced, pan-galactic empire. Stop your mind and be.
- Bobski, on 09/12/2009, -0/+1You sound jealous..
- nepidae, on 09/11/2009, -0/+1<3 the new hubble camera
- the2989, on 09/11/2009, -1/+1Everything would look white if they did that.
- palehorse864, on 09/11/2009, -1/+1Some of the images take ultraviolet, gamma, etc. and give them visible light colors, choosing colors to represent each I believe, so it may not be exactly what you're eye would see.
- Bobski, on 09/12/2009, -1/+1So life is just One Big Accident? That means your life is meaningless.
Might as well do the Universe a favor and off yourself now. - poprocksandsoda, on 09/11/2009, -2/+2I'm always disappointed by Hubble images to some degree knowing that they are all false-color:
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/compositor/ ... - detcade, on 09/11/2009, -1/+1You sound like a little kid..
- Darknile, on 09/11/2009, -3/+3My goodness, 300 hundred million light years away. Thats only about one fortieth of the distance to the observable universe. Think of all the gods created in all those galaxies, and they are all wrong. Makes you think, doesn't it.
- Respect2Glory, on 09/11/2009, -1/+0Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and via the glass of technology 8^) I really appreciate the larger images. Can anyone else 'see' images of beings in some of these heavenly bodies?
- tomega, on 09/11/2009, -1/+0You were not?
- inactive, on 09/11/2009, -5/+1I thought at first it said Stephen's Quintet. It made me think: STEVEN COLBERT NEEDS A GALAXY NAMED AFTER HIM. I'm going to email NASA and The Colbert Show to press this until there is The Colbert Galaxy, or Colbert's Galaxy, whatever Stephen thinks. And I think you should too.
I mean they already gave him a treadmill...they totally owe him something greater now.
☮ - Respect2Glory, on 09/11/2009, -9/+2Don't be sad. I truly believe that we'll get to 'see it all' once this body of flesh has shed. I cannot image God making all of this and not sharing!!! I'd call "dibs" on the "Lagoon and Hourglass nebulae in M8" but we'll probably find that it's all shared property... LOL
- tomega, on 09/11/2009, -7/+0Awesome!! I was entertained for whole 4 seconds!
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