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I've always been in awe of just how small we are compared to our planet, and our planet compared to our solar system, and our solar system compared to our galaxy etc... or to put it another way (Douglas Adams way)
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"
but I digress... for those like me I really enjoy looking at NASAs images and
here you can see the top 10 peoples choice
my absolute favourite for a long time has been
10,000 galaxies
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Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded view represents a "deep" core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years.
The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.
In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field. Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet. A few appear to be interacting. These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic. Order and structure were just beginning to emerge.
The Ultra Deep Field observations, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, represent a narrow, deep view of the cosmos. Peering into the Ultra Deep Field is like looking through an eight-foot-long soda straw.
In ground-based photographs, the patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty. Located in the constellation Fornax, the region is so empty that only a handful of stars within the Milky Way galaxy can be seen in the image.
In this image, blue and green correspond to colors that can be seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow of Sun-like stars in the disks of galaxies. Red represents near-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, such as the red glow of dust-enshrouded galaxies.
The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team
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Posted: 2006-01-23 21:44:33
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@masseur - Nice ! Speaking of galaxies and planets . . . do you BELIEVE that there are really UFOs out there and that we are NOT alone
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Posted: 2006-01-23 21:52:25
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All i can say thats amazing and just shows how nothing we are,thats how we should compare ourselves in the immense vastness of the universe,Nothing!....Wow!
It was my favourite author and inventor Arthur.C.Clark that said we are 50 years behind in terms of space research and exploration,i hope we all live long enough to go out there ourselves!
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:03:00
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i think we are a little colony of bacteria that some giant is looking at under his microscope lol
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:05:03
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EastCoastStar Posts: > 500
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On 2006-01-23 21:52:25, JN wrote:
@masseur - Nice ! Speaking of galaxies and planets . . . do you BELIEVE that there are really UFOs out there and that we are NOT alone
i do believe there are other being out there. i dont know abotu UFOs, but i do believe there is other life. and i do believe some of the other life are WAY MORE advanced than us, and know we are here, while others are not advanced at all, living like cavemen, or ants.
edit: and to think, we think the US and UK are somewhat far apart!
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:07:37
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ecs - Yeah, considering that there are BILLIONS and BILLIONS of planets out there, it's impossible that we are ALONE
As the scientists said: "If there is WATER, surely there is LIFE !" . . .
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:11:32
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I was very close to posting how insignificant we are when compared to all that, but I do feel that it does us a huge injustice to dismiss us in that way
I am interested to know what other images are peoples favourites but for me that image does make me wonder that surely nature would not create such a hugely vast universe if it were not going to provide a way for its inhabitants to visit any part of it
do any other images provoke any other thoughts of this nature? or are there some images that NASA have made that just simply amaze?
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On 2006-01-23 22:05:03, solidsingh wrote:
i think we are a little colony of bacteria that some giant is looking at under his microscope lol
this sounds a bit like the end of the movie "Men in Black"
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:12:03
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Thanks for this thread, images are nice. I love space.
...I also love the end of MIB when they zoom out (also like the end of enemy of the state another Will Smith movie) but in MIB they do it to another level and those two things are playing with the planets like marbles, I don't know why I just like that concept, this is sounding very weird and going very off topic. I shall stop now.
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Actually i think i was wrong, they zoom in on that funny planet thing around the cats neck in mib at the end but similarish sort of thing...
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:19:19
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space is amazing, when i think about it, it makes my head spin... its HUGE! does it even have an ending? is the universe just another planet in an even BIGGER universe?what if the universe wasnt there? what would exist? nothing? what would be there? nothing, ever... how can nothing, ever exist? is it pure white/black? but then how could that exist? thats what bugs me, i got asked it and i couldnt get my head round it... masseur that is an amazing image, im just about to check those other images now...
WOW
theyre amazing! i like the neptune one... goes to show how weird our universe is...
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:29:41
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Does make you think though,how can we be the only ones in this infinite vastness of space?...its next to being impossible that we are alone,maybe other civilisations exsist but are to far to reach us or for us to reach them....don't know really.
I love this picture of Jupiters moon Titan.
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Posted: 2006-01-23 22:30:49
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