Images of the Universe--Hubble Deep Field Telescope

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One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time...

Mankind's deepest, most detailed optical view of the universe — provided courtesy of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope — was unveiled today to eager scientists at the 187th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Antonio, Texas.

The image, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), was assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) for ten consecutive days between December 18 and 28, 1995.

Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime located 75 feet away. Though the field is a very small sample of the heavens, it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space because the universe, statistically, looks largely the same in all directions. Gazing into this small field, Hubble uncovered a bewildering assortment of at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution.

Most of the galaxies are so faint (nearly 30th magnitude or about four-billion times fainter than can be seen by the human eye) they have never before been seen by even the largest telescopes. Some fraction of the galaxies in this menagerie probably date back to nearly the beginning of the universe.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/01

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[youngtaylor1]

fantastic video.

[Tetragrammaton144]

Great video.

[savana906]

@vasant85 Turn to Jesus Christ, cos if not you will be missing Jesus & not Carl in the afterlife!

[DJWaYOfficial]

nice!

[oseloth]

Definitely most important image ever.

[vasant85]

every time i watch videos about the universe, it inspires me to learn a lot more. But then it also makes me feel so tiny and negligible. sometimes i get the feeling that this is the concept of a universe from 'nothingness', just like a thought in our mind from nowhere.

and carl, i really miss you :(.

very nice vid, 5*`s.

[supersonnikko21]

yeah

[nixodian]

MIND BOGGLING! WOW