Hubble Makes Mosaic of 10,000 Galaxies

Yahoo News ^ | 1/08/04 | Deborah Zabarenko

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The newest camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has created an unprecedented image of a huge hunk of the sky...

The new mosaic is the largest color image ever made by the orbiting telescope, covering an area of the sky about the apparent size of the full moon.

Huh?

[narby]

Huh?

I'm not a telescope genius, but obviously if you've assembled an image (I assume in a computer) with enough pixels to display 10,000 galaxies, that's a huge chunk of the sky.

A lot of pixels anyway.

[rickmichaels]

It's a huge hunk of the universe, not of the sky.

[PoorMuttly]

I'm pretty sure it evolved from a monkey.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The new mosaic is the largest color image ever made by the orbiting telescope, covering an area of the sky about the apparent size of the full moon.

Huh?

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That would be a circle 1/2 degree in diameter, less than your little fingernail at arm's length.

(There are LOTS of galaxies out there.)

[COBOL2Java]

'VIOLENT RELAXATION'

That sounds like a description of Hillary's Testicular Lock Box...

[COBOL2Java]

http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/bell/press_release/press.html

[COBOL2Java]

This figure shows the layout of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys fields which are stitched together to form the largest color mosaic ever taken by HST. The numbered tiles are the GEMS tiles, the inner tiles are from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, and are used to complete the full moon-sized color image. The small black outline shows the size of the Hubble Deep Field North for comparison. The field is in the constellation of Fornax in the Southern Hemisphere, and the full moon is overlaid for comparison.
SOURCE: the GEMS collaboration

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What are the odds that only earth has life in the entire universe?

[rickmichaels]

Don't know. What are they?

[aught-6]

Kewl!

[RightWhale]

What are the odds that only earth has life in the entire universe?

Considering only such life as might be considered intelligent: very high for this galaxy by itself. For other galaxies, it doesn't matter since there won't be contact any time soon, sub-space FTL tunneling notwithstanding.

[waterstraat]

What are the chances of SETI picking up a transmission/radio waves cast out into space from some distant planet in the form of a I Love Lucy TV show?

And if their SETI observers picked up our radio waves of that show, what response would they try to send us?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I followed the link at the end,

http:/www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/bell/press_release/press.html

and was rewarded with some lovely images of galaxies.

(This is something that would have been frustrating on my Mac until today; if anyone else is using Internet Explorer on a Mac, run--do not walk--to upgrade to a better browser (in my case, upgrading from 10.0 to 10.3 (panther), and using Apple's own Safari. On the Mac, IE is amazingly slow in comparison.)

I think the high power of an astronomical telescope is only practical in a very narrow field of view. Much smaller, apparently, than the FOV covered by the moon . . .

[lepton]

So why'd they skip the area between 13 and 14?