Hubble's View Of The Universe [Part 1]

Hubble's View Of The Universe [Part 1 of 10]

THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE

Hubble works on the same principle as the first reflecting telescope built in the 1600s by Isaac Newton. Light enters the telescope and strikes a concave primary mirror, which acts like a lens to focus the light. The bigger the mirror, the better the image.

In Hubble, light from the primary mirror is reflected to a smaller secondary mirror in front of the primary mirror, then back through a hole in the primary to instruments clustered behind the focal plane (where the image is in focus).

THE UNIVERSE

Hubble's longest exposures are like a core sample of the universe, recording galaxies at many different distances. This is one of the deepest core samples ever taken. It shows a few nearby stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The rest of the objects are distant galaxies, extending from 1 billion to over 10 billion light-years away.

STARS

Stars live and die over the course of millions to billions of years. It is unusual to see changes in individual stars. To learn more about them, we must piece together snapshots of stars at different life stages — from birth to death.

The birth, life, and rebirth of stars is an ongoing process in the universe. The byproducts of this process include planets and the elements that make life possible.

GALAXIES

Galaxies come in diverse shapes and sizes. NGC 4414 — which is located about 62 million light-years away — is an example of a spiral galaxy. As with most spirals, the central region of NGC 4414 contains primarily older, yellow and red stars. The outer spiral arms are considerably bluer due to ongoing formation of young, blue stars.

The stars form a flat disk that circles the nucleus — a disk we see tilted, so it doesn't appear flat. Spiral galaxies like NGC 4414 display beautiful spiral arms made up of millions of young stars.

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Part 2

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[willbossvarner]

DOESNT IT MAKE ANY OF YOU ANGRY that none of us, none of us will ever know what our eyes are seeing in the video. the endless mysteries of the universe that will never be answered within our lifetimes. those who choose god are to scared to look life in the face and say what the fuck, in all honesty its scary, scary as hell, idk why everyone doesnt live life to its fullest every day becuase once its over its over, people die every day open ur eyes we mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.wtf

[ApocDevTeam]

I downloaded the full resolution pictures from Hubble wtf they are like 30.000 pixels across - takes a year to load :P But my god are they beautifull.

[NLPCPNL]

@willbossvarner

.. We are here to learn and we probably chose to do this ourselves. When our life or our run ends, we go back to the dynamic harddrive which is the universe and we will have access to all the information in the world. We are then one again with the universe instead of being projected into 3D reality and being cut off from all that knowledge. We are the programs and the programmer and one day we will discover our awesomeness again.

[NLPCPNL]

@willbossvarner

.. still there on the computer. It's not being shown in the 3D reality anymore but it's still there, in the reality of the supercomputer. Science has shown us that energy and information are always maintained within the supercomputer called the universe. We are like software programs being tested by being run. And after the run is over we return to the computer to make adjustments. There are some clues from reincarnation stories and BDE's that this is what is going on...

[NLPCPNL]

@willbossvarner

It used to make me angry but slowly it seems that I'm starting to realize that both religion (duh) and the current scientific paradigm are wrong. It seems we live in this supercomputer that uses energy and information to create what we call reality. And we are like software programs or energy-information collectives that are being run and projected into this 3D reality. Just like a software program being shown on your pc monitor. And when the program ends, the program is..

[nickharvey7]

Interesting video! I am an artist on YouTube trying to promote my theory on the dynamics of light and time

This theory is based on just two simple postulates

1. The first is that the quantum wave particle function explained by Schrödinger’s wave equation represents the forward passage of time itself

2. The second is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle that is formed by the wave function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event

[Olaus84]

The fuck pressed the don't like button?

[eugenrau]

I know about Universe as much as before, when saw the pictures from Hubble without music.

[wwwRODcom]

@willbossvarner Life IS the longest thing you'll ever do!!! Live it!!!

[PoFFizdaMan]

Lovely, inspiring, tremendous...

We are so tiny in it all, but were are here and we are conscious so we still matter!Carl Sagan said we are the eyes and ears of the Universe, looking back at itself... I'm humbled and awestruck by the majestic beauty of space. Perfect choice of music, keep posting!

[thrasha666]

its pathetic that prepubescent girls like justin beiber has over 300 million views but things like this dont even have 300 thousand, where are peoples priorities at these days?

[kaderoder]

I was at the edge of the universe just last week. No big deal.