The Most Amazing Image Ever Taken

[ragged325]

I've started this thing with my son Nick where we google pictures about outer space before he goes to bed. We look at pictures from the hubble telescope, moon landings, the space shuttle, etc..

Anyway, we saw this and thought it was pretty cool. If you watch it, click the button to make it full screen.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ

I've watched this thing about 15 times so far.

I'm not sure if this is true, but someone wrote:

Go outside at night, and have a friend stand 75 feet away from you -- holding up a dime. The area of sky that dime hides from your view is the area that one of the deep field images represents. More than 100 million pictures would be needed to image the entire sky.

Other people wrote that even though the universe has a radius of 48 billion light years, the universe is only 13.7 billion years old. So we will never see beyond 13.7xxx billion light years away.

It takes a while to load, but you can see a higher resolution version of the image here:

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2004/07/videos/a/formats/high_quicktime.mov

Could be a repost

[Mike325]

That was pretty cool to see. Makes you think about all the stuff that is really out there. I wonder if there are other planets with life on it like ours.

[uofom3]

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I'm pretty sure I read somewhere or heard something on a Discovery channel documentary that said that mathmatically it would be probable that there are hundreds of thousands/millions of planets in the universe that would be similar to earth and life inhabiting.

[dlmpsy]

I read somewhere there are about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way.

[M42Technik]

I remember seeing this. There is a 3000x3000 picture out there of this image, search for it and you'll find it. It is on my home computer and I'm at work.

I constantly have this as my background to remind me how small and insignificant life is. I always look at the sky and remember that video and that photo, and I ask myself why I'm here, working at a lame ass job instead of building a spacecraft out of an E30 so I can be a space cowboy.

[Maluco]

There are as many stars as there are all the grains of sand on all the beaches on earth. The figures, facts and theories regarding space and the universe are absolutely mind-boggling, to say the least.

[andyman2487]

If any of you are into reading, check out "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku. It's a book about cosmology (the study of the universe) and is a real mind blower. He's a great author that has the ability to take extremely abstract concepts like string theory and put them in laymen's terms. Highly recommended. Recently, scientists took a photo of the oldest galaxy ever seen -- 13 billion years old. Keep in mind that the universe is 13.7 billion years old +/- 200 million years. Haha, and fundamentalist christians think the earth is a few thousand years old.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Ifind it amazing how rare it is for something from out there beyond our atmosphere to be found here on our small miniscule earth, On that note, I may have some space real estate to report back here about soon. Out to the playa...

[ia_e30]

Wow, that's amazing. I'm not one to believe in UFOs, but I definitely believe there are other civilizations out there.....somewhere....

[Maluco]

If any of you are into reading, check out "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku. It's a book about cosmology (the study of the universe) and is a real mind blower. He's a great author that has the ability to take extremely abstract concepts like string theory and put them in laymen's terms. Highly recommended. Recently, scientists took a photo of the oldest galaxy ever seen -- 13 billion years old. Keep in mind that the universe is 13.7 billion years old +/- 200 million years. Haha, and fundamentalist christians think the earth is a few thousand years old.

I've seen many a shows on Discovery, National Geographic and others with him. Quantum physics, string theory, dark matter, black holes, parallel universes and my favorite Parallel Synchornized Randomness (last one was a joke - The Science of Sleep) Crazy shit for sure...

[(:Jordan:)]

I think if someone thinks there is no possible way there is another planet like our they are being self minded. IMO

[Ray Smoodiver]

On the other hand, the events at every single stage of evolution and every single fluke event is what landed humans on earth.

Sure there will be life, but no fucking way will it look anything like us at all.

[Jand3rson]

Wow. I am literally in awe of this. It does nothing short of twist your brain trying to imagine that there could be literally millions of planets like Earth, with being similar (or not) to humans, with cultures, civilizations, history, warfare, poverty, governments, etc. You could seriously go insane thinking about it, the worst part being that in our lifetime, we'll probably never know for sure. Probably not even in our next 1000 lifetimes. It's staggering.

[Van Westervelt]

Damn.

[M42Technik]

Here is the image:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hubble_ultra_deep_field.jpg

And here is a nice YTMND that does a good job of summing it up with some nice pictures to go with:

http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/

Josh its so much more than that when you wonder what the afterlife has in store when you see things like this...