New Hubble Images
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these look very much like the stuff greg martin produces 
It's literally mind-bending to think those are actual pictures. Incredible.
Space has always fascinated me, just consider the idea that our Solar System would take a human tens if not hundreds of years to travel across at our current rocket speed, and the Solar System is a tiny part of a bigger Galaxy, of which there are hundreds in the bottom left pic, and that's just one small pic.
Space has always fascinated me, just consider the idea that our Solar System would take a human tens if not hundreds of years to travel across at our current rocket speed, and the Solar System is a tiny part of a bigger Galaxy, of which there are hundreds in the bottom left pic, and that's just one small pic.
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Love this space stuff.
I call shopped...i can tell by the pixels..and seeing quite a few shops in my time
Absolutely stunning photos! Also cannot comprehend that is happening out there, and people say there's no such thing as aliens or life outside this planet pah
Absolutely stunning photos! Also cannot comprehend that is happening out there, and people say there's no such thing as aliens or life outside this planet pah
I call shopped...i can tell by the pixels..and seeing quite a few shops in my time
Absolutely stunning photos! Also cannot comprehend that is happening out there, and people say there's no such thing as aliens or life outside this planet pah
What you see is not happening out there right now, right now the regions of space you see are likely weaker or dead because what you see is billions of years into the past so if what we are seeing is 4 billion years in the past and some kind of intelligent life existed on a solar system in one of those pictures then at present they may well be extinct!
That's not to say new life did not evolve elsewhere on a planet whose star is still in its prime!
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I can't get my head around that these things are 'out there'!
I think the latest estimate of planets alone is a billion billion
Which is why i think our assumption that there is no intelligent life anywhere else is unlikely
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This picture is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image where the Hubble telescope looked at an "empty" spot in space and took a very long exposure photo. This image is of galaxies some 13 billion years ago.
Now thats a mind ****
Could not agree more, took the words right out of my mouth
Indeed!
As the link says, the rate of expansion does look like it was greater in the universes past but as new stars and galaxies form their gravitational pull slows the rate of expansion down.
One day this may lead to a contracting universe (the big implode!?) resulting in a new big bang.....it's safe to say whatever life exists at that time won't exist for very long in the universe
As the link says, the rate of expansion does look like it was greater in the universes past but as new stars and galaxies form their gravitational pull slows the rate of expansion down.
One day this may lead to a contracting universe (the big implode!?) resulting in a new big bang.....it's safe to say whatever life exists at that time won't exist for very long in the universe
I call shopped...i can tell by the pixels..and seeing quite a few shops in my time
And you call correctly - just not in the way you think. WFC3 is capable of detecting a wider colour range than the human eye - into the ultraviolet and infra-red, so in some cases it is necessary to compress, shift or otherwise alter the colour space of the images so they make sense to us mere mortals - the images are real, but in some cases may be false colour.
I don't know if this is true for these specific images, but it is true for some others in the series (there's an infra-red version of the bottom right image for example - revealing a stellar nursery).
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Indeed!
As the link says, the rate of expansion does look like it was greater in the universes past but as new stars and galaxies form their gravitational pull slows the rate of expansion down.
One day this may lead to a contracting universe (the big implode!?) resulting in a new big bang.....it's safe to say whatever life exists at that time won't exist for very long in the universe
Interesting, was reading about this recently. The big "crunch" is the term used
I think more recently it's been thought that it'll actually just keep on expanding forever.