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Hubble snaps stunning baby pic of cosmos
by Dementia at 3:08 pm EDT, Jun 20, 2003 |
] A new wide-angle view of the universe looks back to a
] mere billion years after the Big Bang, revealing secrets
] about the lives of galaxies and the black holes at their
] hearts, scientists reported on Thursday.
]
] The new view is contained in one extraordinary image,
] compiled by astronomers using a super-high-resolution
] camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, along with a
] catalog of objects giving off strong X-rays from space,
] detected by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, another
] NASA-affiliated instrument.
]
] The image shows a section of sky about one-tenth the size
] of the full Moon viewed from Earth. Though this may seem
] narrow, it is about 30 times wider than the last deep
] look into the universe, the Hubble Deep Field observation
] released in 1996. (trying REAL hard not to sound like Carl Segan here) Amazing. Each of those tiny specs of light in the back ground? They aren't stars. They are other GALAXIES - if the same size as our own Milky Way, about 90,000 light years from end to end in a mass of 200 BILLION stars. And we're so arrogant to think we are the only speck of dust in the universe with life??? Laughing Boy |
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RE: Hubble snaps stunning baby pic of cosmos
by ubernoir at 4:13 pm EST, Jan 26, 2004 |
Dementia wrote:
] ] A new wide-angle view of the universe looks back to a
] ] mere billion years after the Big Bang, revealing secrets
] ] about the lives of galaxies and the black holes at their
] ] hearts, scientists reported on Thursday.
] ]
] ] The new view is contained in one extraordinary image,
] ] compiled by astronomers using a super-high-resolution
] ] camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, along with a
] ] catalog of objects giving off strong X-rays from space,
] ] detected by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, another
] ] NASA-affiliated instrument.
] ]
] ] The image shows a section of sky about one-tenth the size
] ] of the full Moon viewed from Earth. Though this may seem
] ] narrow, it is about 30 times wider than the last deep
] ] look into the universe, the Hubble Deep Field observation
] ] released in 1996.
]
] (trying REAL hard not to sound like Carl Segan here)
]
] Amazing. Each of those tiny specs of light in the back
] ground? They aren't stars. They are other GALAXIES - if the
] same size as our own Milky Way, about 90,000 light years from
] end to end in a mass of 200 BILLION stars.
]
] And we're so arrogant to think we are the only speck of dust
] in the universe with life???
]
] Laughing Boy but we are the only life we know of. The universe is 13.7 billion years old and there are maybe 100-200 billion stars in the Milky Way and there are maybe 100 billion large galaxies similar to it. Yes I believe there must be other life out there but we have no evidence of intelligence and, so goes the joke, precious little evidence of it on Earth. But the point is that diamonds and gold are precious because they are rare. Scarcity makes something valuable so how precious therefore is a single human life, a single intelligence. Only 6 or so billion intelligent beings in all the depths of time and all the breadth of space. Entire galaxies are commonplace when compared to a single human being. |
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Hubble snaps stunning baby pic of cosmos
by wilpig at 7:54 am EDT, Jun 20, 2003 |
] A new wide-angle view of the universe looks back to a
] mere billion years after the Big Bang, revealing secrets
] about the lives of galaxies and the black holes at their
] hearts, scientists reported on Thursday.
]
] The new view is contained in one extraordinary image,
] compiled by astronomers using a super-high-resolution
] camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, along with a
] catalog of objects giving off strong X-rays from space,
] detected by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, another
] NASA-affiliated instrument.
]
] The image shows a section of sky about one-tenth the size
] of the full Moon viewed from Earth. Though this may seem
] narrow, it is about 30 times wider than the last deep
] look into the universe, the Hubble Deep Field observation
] released in 1996. |
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