[Red Badger]

Ping!...............

[Red6]

Don’t know what to say other than “cool.”

[Jim W N]

Looks like HAL the computer from “2001”. So that’s where he ended up...

[Jim W N]

Looks like HAL the computer from “2001”. So that’s where he ended up...

[cymbeline]

Why isn’t there a single white object?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Red; Thanks for posting! Incredible picture!

Don't think its answerable, but is or can anyone/any being look our direction on the other side of the lens? Not thinking so. Absent some incredible advance in space travel, we are quarantined by the incomprehensible distances and our lifespans.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Hubble data. That thing has been a bargain.

[linMcHlp]

Objects in your mirror are closer than they appear to be.

[central_va]

Starring at the cosmos is navel gazing at its most expensive.

[4Runner]

I don't think a distance of 12 billion light years is truly possible for the human mind or brain to comprehend.

Just one light year being equal to the distance light travels at 186,000 miles per second times the total number of seconds there are in a year, is difficult enough to comprehend.

I tried to mathematically calculate that distance. The zeroes just killed me. Even after resorting to scientific notation. I'm sure someone here with better math skills than mine can create the equation for the solution, but still the distance is outrageous.

For 12 billion light years? Forget it. I think that kind of distance approaches virtual infinity.

Try thinking about infinity as something that goes on forever without ever ending, and you start going crazy. There's a reason for that. We aren't wired for it.

Not yet, anyway.

[griffin]

” It was simply chance that placed the lens and those seven galaxies in a single line of sight from our vantage point.”

Uh huh....think again.
The Lord is GREAT. GLORY be unto the Lord!