Possibly the most important picture to man

And, conversly, the most irrelevant picture to man. They aimed [size=-1]the hubble space telescope at the blankest, most plain patch of space, the telescope stared at this exact patch of space for a few days, staring 12 billion light years into space, and it came up with this picture.
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Each spot, dot and spec in this image is a galaxy, each with anywhere between 1 and 100 billion stars in it. This is just from a tiny image staring at the least populated area of space from the Earth. I don't know about you guys, but just trying to comprehending this fucks with my mind. Kind of makes life, daily things like going to uni, buying groceries, reading up on celebraties just look completely insignificant. I mean surely there's more to life than what we're doing? [/size]

 

even as a very young child, i would look up into outer space for hours each night and wonder: "whats out there?" i, also as a very young child would look at life forms for hours on end too, and wonder: "whats in there?" what is inner space? what is outer space? i wish i had another thousand years to live. the things we will have discovered by then!

 

I don't think people have taken the vastness of creation enough to heart. We're still fighting over trivial issues and obsessed with trivial things. Things which to me just seem to be a diversion born out of fear of the truth.

 

Here is an abso, megally, super, ific version of it http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2004/07/images/m/formats/full_jpg.jpg !!

I read that if, you put your index, fingers and thumbs, together to make that tiny little, diamond, and hold it to the sky, and look through, it with your eyes, there are 10,000+ galaxies, in that diamond, alone ...

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that's amazing. I love space. Thanks!

 

Thanks for sharing this picture. It's really quite incredible how much is out there. Space is such an amazing thing. What if the only limit to the size of space is that which our minds set for it. Anyways, thanks for the great picture. It was my new desktop background the second it finished downloading.

 

Thanks to molecular for posting the bigger picture.

 

Incredible picture. And some people say that there is no other life out there...

 

Some of my favorite memories are of me sprawled out on the grass, just watching the sky on cool nights...

 

i got chills when i looked at that picture lol. yeah for people to say there is no life out there is pretty fucking naive.

 

Hmm. You know what would be more naive? Saying there is life down here. But seriously, who are we to judge?

 

Everytime I look at that picture, I feel a little more human. But, if there is intelligent life out there, we as a race may never know of them. Carl Sagan once said we were a two planet species. The Earth itself is too small to contain us forever.

Mars is our largest step if we're ever to see the future of interstellar travel. To colonize Mars would be the biggest and possibly greatest achievement of man. Travelling to another star, colonizing another planet there, still will never quite compare to the day man first moved from one rock to another.


Travelling to another galaxy though is a completely different matter entirely. We will probably never have a propulsion system, or research strongly enough to do so. We are still primates in the vast scale of universal knowledge.

 

Space....is a long, long, time.

 

Indeed, I wouldn't say 'Fucking Naive' but just less open-minded.

They could be wrong about the amount, but scientist believe that there are 50 Billion galaxies out their, and in some of the galaxies there could be up to 100 million planets in there. It would be pretty stupid of me to say that in all these galaxies and planets, that we are the only form of life force to exist. I think not.

What gets me thinking, is that people often say that when you stare up at the sky, and think if there is life out of there, there could be another person up there doing and thinking the same... who agrees with that?

 

I've had dreams as a kid where I grew and grew and became infinitely big ... and at the same time i felt tiny, and tinyer until i completely faded into nothingness. I was absorbed and yet I held all of the universe inside my breath. And in between those two, I existed as a strange, humming vibration.

Trying to grasp the picture, quantity seems to have no more meaning. Maybe the universe is just an atom sitting on a microbe's back who took a ride on a flea shell.

What a wonderful world!

 

maybe we're the aliens in the ufos, ready to invade different planets.

 

That's absolutely breathtaking. It really makes you think about how small and insignificant we are. They skies are endless and filled with an infinite amount of stuff. I think it's amazing we can even see that far into existence.

 

I love going to the Nasa site! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0511/horsehead_verschatse_f.jpg It almost looks like surrealistic art, doesn't it?

 

Beautiful.