Posted on 10/02/2025 12:02:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014. The dimmest galaxies are more than 10 billion times fainter than stars visible to the unaided eye and represent the Universe in the extreme past, a few 100 million years after the Big Bang. The image itself was made with the significant addition of ultraviolet data to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, an update of Hubble's famous most distant gaze toward the southern constellation of Fornax. It now covers the entire range of wavelengths available to Hubble's cameras, from ultraviolet through visible to near-infrared. Ultraviolet data adds the crucial capability of studying star formation in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field galaxies between 5 and 10 billion light-years distant.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
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I love the pictures of galaxies ....
That’s a good image to use as a desktop background. I’ve used it for that many times before and I’m going to put it on again for a while.
Thanks.
I can imagine someone in one of these galaxies looking out, with the Milky Way somewhere in the view, and thinking “could we be all alone?”
Astronomical Images - Prince of Denmark’s March - Jeremiah Clarke
https://youtu.be/CCTOCCJ2Ixg
You are, Mr. MtnClimber, ‘essential staff.”
Thanks!
I don’t believe we’re all alone in the universe. There’s billions and billions of galaxies and are we that conceited to think we’re the only ones? Even within our own galaxy?
PS: I had someone ask me if Jesus had to go to all those galaxies to save them from sins? I said, no, because they all listened, we didn’t.
I know.
The answer is obvious, but some cling to stuff
Gorgeous. So magnificent.
Stunningly beautiful.
Or a giant space Garfield going “Candy, candy, candy...” as the galaxies slowly wink out of site.
I remember the Obama Shutdown — he closed all national parks and services like APOD, which was moved by some conscientious scientist to a numbered server, presumably on campus, or in his or her house. Those links of course ceased to work after the shutdown ended, but I couldn’t edit them (or the graphics links). Luckily they’re buried in the FRchives.
Anyway, the APOD archives:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
BTW, belated congratulations on your fifth anniversary of handling the APOD list here on FR!
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Here’s your very first one!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3848877/posts
Oh yeah, and the numbered server worked for a while afterward, and it slipped my mind to change my links shortcuts, so the bum links persisted into November. Mea culpa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_government_shutdown
Thanks. My first post was not so great. I am trying to get better.
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