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Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken

This is the latest incarnation of the HDF video. The narration has been
edited to include research from a paper in Physical Review Letters
(2004) which puts the size of the universe at 46.5 billion light years,
not 78 billion as I originally stated.


Added: Sep-14-2012 
By: USMCSniper
In: Other News, Science and Technology
Tags: Hubble Deep Field, NASA
Marked as: approved
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  • What really blows your mind is when you realize you are seeing light that has been traveling here for 47 billion years. And if you ever started traveling that way, you have to realize your destination may have ceased to exist billions of years ago but the light hasn't stopped traveling here so it looks like it is still there. And technically, if you head in the direction of a distant star, you are really traveling in time as well. Somebody pass me the bong.

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    dirtbiker201 (1457.78)  

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    • @dirtbiker201

      When I was a kid and first understood all that I went out in the garden at night and pointed a powerful flashlight to the sky for a few minutes. The photons of my flashlight -I said to myself or at least some of them, are now going to travel through the entire universe forever. Technically there isn't anything much wrong with that, I think...

      Here's the bong, when you're done with it pass it over, ok?

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      Valerie2007 (755.92)  

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    • @dirtbiker201 "that has been traveling here for 47 billion years"

      the universe is 13 billion years old, 47 billion is the distance not the age of the universe.

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      Othman (285.64)  

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    • @Valerie2007
      LOL. With you on that. Like I said earlier, its taken us nearly forty years to toss something out of our own solar system. And we haven't, quite yet. FORTY years.

      Dirtbiker has a point. By the time we see something in space, it might as well not exist. Eta Carinae for example. It could have exploded a few billion years ago and we still wouldn't know about it.

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      copperdog3 (1036.74)  

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  • That should kick ass to anyone who thinks he is of some kind of importance.
    Besides of course the ones who never think, and there are quite a few around here on LL...

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    Valerie2007 (755.92)  

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  • MOST IMPORTANT IMAGE EVER TAKEN...until the next one..

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    kajidono (686.26)  

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    • @kajidono

      Of course, all is relative. "One big step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind" could also have been the thoughts of an ape who first ventured down of his tree...

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      Valerie2007 (755.92)  

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    • @Valerie2007 "Apekind"

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      kajidono (686.26)  

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    • @kajidono

      Yes you're right, and actually his thoughts would rather have been "One huge leap for an ape, one small step towards mankind".

      And then his apekind nature most probably got him horribly mauled by a tiger or something...

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      Valerie2007 (755.92)  

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    • @Valerie2007 Ah, tigers. If we could have picked a species to evolve from, it would be tigers. But alas, we're stuck with a bunch of monkeys throwing poop at each other.

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      kajidono (686.26)  

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    • @kajidono

      Tigers, just like squirrels, never got it right in matters of evolution: to really outcompete any of your mammal foes, you must absolutely get opposable thumbs. And who got opposable thumbs? Guess who. Not the tigers, not the squirrels, just only a silly bunch of old grumpy monkeys that today rule the world...

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      Valerie2007 (755.92)  

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  • Too bad the words interrupted Pink Floyd!

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    fotoman4u2 (3430.70)  

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  • I've developed an easier way to imagine and grasp the size of the Universe.
    The nearest star is 4 light years away. Imagine a model with that star only 1mm away. At that scale, the radius of the milky way is about the same length of an average house, and it is a disk a few centimeters thick.
    While standing at one end of your house at the edge of the disk, the centre of the milky way is at the far wall. At that scale the Sun wouldn't be visible until you got within 1 cm of it. The nearest signif More..

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    Cadae (143.78)  

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  • Pretty amazing.
    I'm curious though... Maybe LL has an engineer or somebody who can explain this to me. Why is it that we have no telescopes built to focus on objects in our solar system? Hubble can take pictures of the smallest dimmest furthest objects, but we have nothing that can zoom in to take pictures of the surface of the moon or Mars. Hubble can photo galaxies more than 10,000,000,000 light-years away. But we don't have anything that can zoom in on the surface of the moon which is only 23 More..

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    ST0N3PONY (5036.72)  

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  • After watching this amazing video, it makes me so sad to think of all the craziness going on in our world...in particular, the mess that's going on with the rioting in the Middle East...

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    BunnyBunkers (3.20)  

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  • Yeah right, like we're supposed to believe in proven math and science as opposed to magic and miracles, pfffttt. :/

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    BurkaBurka (155.00)  

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  • And these religions have all the answers......f***ing absurd these religions are, all of them! None of them even mention the Americas, except Mormon because it was made up in America. The only thing more absurd than these religions are the followers. If there is a god watching us all, you followers of these fake religions are probably his source of entertainment.

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    sinister283 (110.74)

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    • @sinister283 The middle East is in an uproar because of what?

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      opacity (120.68)  

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    • @sinister283
      Yeah, ok mr. wizard. Most scientists tell us the universe is 12-13 billion years old. The hubble among others are striving to peer beyond that threshold.

      So wiseguy. What's after that? how did we get here?

      You see, before you even utter the bullshit answers you no doubt have ready, ponder this:

      It takes just as much faith to deny God as it does to affirm God. Neither is provable.

      So, whatcha gonna do now?

      Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
      copperdog3 (1036.74)  

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    • @sinister283 yes an universe out of nowhere make so much sense compared to a Creator.

      You will look like an idiot on judgment day.

      Posted Sep-15-2012 By 
      Othman (285.64)  

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  • Hey Mr. Rogers, get the F-ing point!

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    ad astra (180.30)  

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  • Let's get Sirius.
    It's not the most important image ever taken.
    My high school yearbook photo is.
    My mommy told me so.

    Posted Sep-15-2012 By 
    govett (934.40)

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  • BTW, remember that the light captured by Hubble took billions of years to reach it, so those galaxies are in different locations now, if they still exist at all. Also, the gravity of intervening galaxies, nebulae, and even stars could have deflected the light from those galaxies, which may appear to be neighbors but are actually far distant from each other.

    Posted Sep-15-2012 By 
    govett (934.40)

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  • This is the better one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    boomerkc (125.90)  

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  • But, my coworker said God created everything around 2k years ago. How can this be?

    Posted Sep-15-2012 By 
    1976CapriII (43.80)  

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  • This is an old one. If you search around a bit, you'll find loads better.

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    One Ballock (422.80)

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