The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

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In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.

How Can the universe be 78 billion LY across? I explain that in this article:

http://www.deepastronomy.com/hubble-d...

There is also a link to a science paper on the topic, that paper actually states 96 billion LY.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310233

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[engymassX]

Plenty enough room for Extraterrestrial Aliens to exist, Heaven, Hell, and anything else you can dream in your mind. Plenty of room.

[cw5394]

I wish another life force would make contact with us in my lifetime..

[Thomas Anderson]

Do w still have contact with the Hubble? That's crazy if we do. If so, do you know how we get a signal that far?

[pa ma]

this planet is still so young if we did have a visit we would only want to kill it see whats inside just like we have done all along pull a tree up but don't plant one back find a cure for cancer , in what the people paid for , then say the cure is to expensive, with all them planets out there,lets just hope there is just one that thinks better.

[keshod divos]

it already has will you speak to it will you seek it out........ its like the truth in a world of lies something you wouldn't realize right in yo face

[abcanw]

if hubble moves and orbits the earth, how can it collect light and make still still image of the same spot of the universe for 10 days?

[Mikal Toresen Nilsen]

The telescope does not zoom into the deep field. It's the light that's been travelling through space that is caught. The vast distance of space is impossible to understand, and the technology to actually being able to zoom down to detailed landscapes, structures, planets etc. are probably lightyears away. There would have to be built extremely large telescopes, just to name one of several factors.

[max rakestraw]

You had me at Pink Floyd....

[Straker9063]

1:30 I got featured in a science vid... SWEET! :D

[Brock1812]

1 light-year = 9460730472580800 metres (exactly)

1 light year= nine quadrillion four hundred sixty trillion seven hundred thirty billion four hundred seventy two million five hundred eighty thousand eight hundred metres.

To put this in perspective, the earths circumference is 40, 075, 000 metres

[Steve Missinne]

If the hubble telescope an see that deep into the universe and take a picture billions of light years away. Wouldn't the telescope be able to take pictures of an actual planet only, lets say 5 light years away and be able to see land, ocean, other life, etc..??

[logan valcarce]

if the light has been traveling for 13 billion years then that means it hasn't even traveled to use yet. 1 ly = how far light travels in a year. so if the light that we are getting from that galaxy must have been generated 78 billion years ago. i really dont know though.