Universe doesn't look real. Amazing picture.

It's most likely a composite, they take images in the wavelengths outside visible range (x-ray, IR etc) and photochop them together. I certainly don't think we're alone, some of those galaxies would have over a trillion stars.
 
I read this too. However, read this comment:

supernovasky said:
Alright, final verdict: It's fake. It's an artistic rendition of something that IS real, though.

Here is the site:
http://www.nasa.gov/lb/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0107filament.html

Here is the caption that is SUPPOSED to go with this image (thanks, original digger):

This is a computer artist's illustration of a giant but remote galaxy string discovered recently. The fuzzy, bright areas in the cube at the beginning of the movie, and in Images 1 and 2, represent galaxies discovered about 10.8 billion light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Grus (the Crane). Astronomers believe these galaxies are members of a much larger structure at least 300 million light-years long and 50 million light-years wide. Since light took 10.8 billion years to traverse the distance between the galaxy structure and Earth, we see the structure as it appeared when the Universe was young, just a fifth of its current age. Although they don't yet know how many galaxies were forming in the structure 10.8 billion years ago, the astronomers believe it will eventually evolve into a giant galaxy string resembling the "Great Wall" of galaxies relatively nearby. When this happens, the newly-discovered galaxy string will contain many thousands of galaxies (Images 3 and 4). This new structure defies current models of how the Universe evolved, which can't explain how a structure this big could have formed so early.
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Still fascintating stuff though. I'm gonna have to buy a decent telescope at some point...
 
Yes, it is crazy. Thats why i believe and have always believed we are not.

The pic isnt real by the way. well it is but many stitched pics together and some galaxies have apparently been clone stamped and rotated :rolleyes:
 
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Sometimes I lay and think about the universe and how big it is, think about what comes after the universe, it really screws your head if you think about it hard enough. How did this massive space come about? It didn't just come from nowhere, ok enough already my heads going funny :p

From Wikipedia: There are more than one hundred billion (10^11) galaxies in the universe,each containing hundreds of billions of stars. :eek:
 
And each of those stars is a super heavy body with the possibility of it causing the formation of planets.
 
Space think makes my head confused.

How big is it and what's beyond it? We know that we can create physical boundaries, but is it possible for something to be infinite? If so, what is the cause for the never endingness and is it that new "space" is simply created all the time? If that's the case, what's "infront" of that space that is being created?

Crazy stuff :)
 
G-MAN2004 said:
I hope we're not alone.
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Well, one recently discovered candidate for extraterrestrial life has been ruled out, but it seems another might have already taken it's place.

As for whether there's life out there, given that one recent estimate suggested there might be more planets in the universe than there are particles of dust in all the rooms in all the buildings on planet Earth, I'd say that's a pretty sure bet. As to whether there is intelligent life, that's a completely different problem.
 
Also, I recently began reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. It's very complex and impossibly mind boggling. It does give some very interesting theories though.
 
imagine in about 50 years time at our current rate we could be travelling to planets for holidays and may in 200 years we could be half way across the universe, god i wish life expectancy was a lot higher :D.
 
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There's thousands of galaxies in that image, most too small to pick out though.

But let's assume each galaxy has 250 billion stars (around half of what our galaxy contains).

Then you're looking at 25,000,000,000,000+ stars.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
 
Gaverick said:
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To think what we see in this image actually occurred 78 billion lightyears ago, what's it like now?!
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Somone stole them and by the time we get there, they'd be nothing left!

I believe there is intelligent life out there, more intelligent then ours, it ain't that hard sometimes lol.
 
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