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[Credit: NASA, ESA, H.Teplitz and M.Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst(ASU), Z. Levay (STScI)]

1 posted on 06/05/2014 3:59:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

As they say on TV, every speck you see is another galaxy.


4 posted on 06/05/2014 4:21:29 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (BS, MS, PhD and a BMF besides)
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To: SunkenCiv
a few 100 million years after the Big Bang

I still cannot understand how all matter comes from a point in space.

Amazing picture.

10 posted on 06/05/2014 6:23:36 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: SunkenCiv

ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE


11 posted on 06/05/2014 7:08:36 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for posting. Surely this remains as the single most wonderful photograph ever taken, and its enhancements keep making it even better!


15 posted on 06/05/2014 10:37:24 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: SunkenCiv

“10 billion light-years”

Just a second, let me wrap my mind around the concept of ten billion light years.

There, got it.

Everybody believes me, right?


19 posted on 06/05/2014 11:13:39 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just thought this was very cool. A video of the sun from the space station. When the space station orbits parallel with the terminator, the sun never sets.

https://vine.co/v/MD1eEQEjM9u


33 posted on 06/06/2014 3:22:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Check this out for perspective!

Zoom and pan of Hubble's colourful view of the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peqCfW8hSzQ

37 posted on 06/09/2014 4:19:07 PM PDT by Jeremiah Jr (EL CHaI)
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