Image of the Day: Galaxies Beyond Comprehension (and Seven-Trillion Dwarfs!)

Daily Galaxy ^ | 2/17/11

[JusPasenThru]

If you look closely enough you can see Helen Thomas.

It’s one of the red ones.

[PetroniusMaximus]

7 trillion Dwarf galaxies ping

[JRios1968]

7 trillion dwarfs? Poor Snow White!

[Paradox]

While probably quite informative, this picture is no where near as lovely as the one the Hubble took.

[agere_contra]

Kudos for finding an article that uses the expression ‘30 billion trillion’ that isn’t about the national debt.

[Spirochete]

Astonishingly, as many as 90 percent of such distant galaxies may go unseen in these exercises.

So this is where all the unseen 'missing matter' is.

[Chattering Class of 58]

wow - amazing

[Hoodat]

O LORD my God, You are very great:
You are clothed with honor and majesty,
Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,
Who makes the clouds His chariot,
Who walks on the wings of the wind,
Who makes His angels spirits,
His ministers a flame of fire.

Psalm 104:1-4

[Our man in washington]

Astronomers estimate that their are billions and billions of galaxies in the observable universe

Can anyone over the age of 40 read that sentence without thinking of a certain scientist?

[Batrachian]

They are sea shells, washed up on the shores of infinity. What civilizations are out there? What strange empires? Or is it just some little green man sitting in his back yard and asking “Is there anyone out there?”

[MNDude]

3x10²² is extremely puny compared to the probabilities needed for life or the laws of nature to turn out just right by itself.

[Grut]

You mean the one who had the Universe for a co-star on PBS?

[SubMareener]

Rhight! Every gram of real matter found is one less gram of “dark matter” required!

[dainbramaged]

It’s hard to wrap my brain around those numbers - reminds me of the fisherman’s prayer: “O, God Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small.”

[mmercier]

After reading live tweets from reporters describing tank mounted guns live firing into unarmed crowds and first hand accounts of police tossing grenades and gas into emergency rooms to finish off the wounded in various third world $hitholes..

You made me laugh.

Thanks for that, it was needed.

[hosepipe]

[ In the case of very distant, old galaxies, the telltale light may not reach Earth as it is blocked by interstellar clouds of dust and gas -- and, as a result, these galaxies are missed by the map-makers. ]

And thats just the ones we can't see..
Its possible there are others "we" don't even know about..

[Our man in washington]

You mean the one who had the Universe for a co-star on PBS?

I do indeed refer to Carl Sagan. He thus had the largest co-star in the history of television. (Although that's only because Michael Moore always worked alone.)

[Our man in washington]

You mean the one who had the Universe for a co-star on PBS?

I do indeed refer to Carl Sagan. He thus had the largest co-star in the history of television. (Although that's only because Michael Moore always worked alone.)

[raybbr]

Don't know if this applies to your "planet-x" list...

Please add me to that list, too, thanks.