Hubble Pics Show Deepest View of Universe

Foxnews ^ | 3-9-04

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Tue Mar 9, 9:03 PM ET

This composite photo by the Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites), released Tuesday March 9, 2004 by NASA (news - web sites), a long-duration exposure, is the deepest-ever view of the universe, looks back to the edge of the big bang, and shows a chaotic scramble of odd galaxies smashing into each other and re-forming in bizarre shapes. The galaxies in this panel were plucked from a harvest of nearly 10,000 galaxies in the Ultra Deep Field, the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/NASA)

Tue Mar 9, 7:49 PM ET
Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as NASA (news - web sites)'s Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites) can see. This view showing nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded view represents a 'deep' core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors.(AFP/NASA)

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[cripplecreek]

REALLY far out man.

[LibWhacker]

Some of the galaxies in the Ultra Deep Field appear to be colliding, with gravitational forces mashing them into unusual shapes. Some resemble toothpicks . . .

IMO, some of the best evidence yet for the Big Bang. You announce there was a Big Bang and then look back in time to the epoch where things began settling down, and there they are: Toothpick shaped galaxies, and other galactic oddities, at precisely the moment in time you said they would be found. But will it convince the science haters? Nope. Their goofiness is eternal. I expect another goofy denial of the Big Bang any moment now.

[DoctorMichael]

Thanks!

[ImaGraftedBranch]

ok...if we are just receiving the photons from these galaxies that were over 12 BILLION light years away when they left, and the universe is only 13 billion years old, that means that the universe expanded to such a distance of separation in less than a billion years. Hmmm.

[sirchtruth]

Why do some galaxies and planets spin different directions?

[cripplecreek]

Let there be light. And there was light.

[Indy Pendance]

I look at it this way, who's to say God didn't make a 'big bang'. It was probably in his play book from the start. Neverless, this stuff is cool.

[Indy Pendance]

This is totally cool stuff. I'm glad I had the chance to learn physics, math, chemistry and such in college. Makes you appreciate the fact you really don't know nothin'.

[antienvironmentalist]

So if the Universe is ever expanding, what is it expanding into?

What's it all about, Alfie?

[cripplecreek]

same here. Christian doesnt mean anti science by any means.

I don't even find any real conflict between creationism and evolutionary theories myself.

[DoctorMichael]

Whats mind-blowing to me is the clarity of the piks. To take a moving object (The Hubble), which is circling another moving object (The Earth) which is circling the sun, which ITSELF is slowly going around the galaxy and THEN focus on the same piece of sky for the length of time needed to get enough photons to form the image is amazing.

[Crazieman]

Evolution is God's tool, as I see it.

[k2blader]

What awesome creations!

I suppose we could argue all day over the possibility of a "big bang", but one thing's for sure--God was surely the only one Who could have done it.

[Indy Pendance]

Ha! I don't either, who's to say God didn't make evolution and creation and the big bang and all that? I don't bother with those debates, because no one 'wins' anyway. I believe in God, I believe he created everything, and we are just trying to figure out how he put it all together. These photos are still cool. Did you ever hear the theory about getting to the 'end of the universe' and you are right back where you started from? It's a circular theory, it's really interesting, of course, I can't explain it as the experts can. Neverless, it's kind of like Einstein's theory of relativity and the speed of light....

[stands2reason]

Space is Big.

[Indy Pendance]

I hear you! I have enough science background to kind of understand somewhat, but, these people who figured it all out are well beyond my little brain. I know stuff the average person will never understand, but I don't know that much! Still, I'm happy to have had the courses I had to somewhat understand what was involved in being able to do this. Imagine all the cool stuff we'll miss out on in 200 years from now.

[longshadow]

Hubble-mania ping

[Light Speed]

I too question the uniform information track.

I used to *Buy Big Bang,,then came accross Electric Universe and Halton Arp.

Revisionist thinking.... it has foundation at many levels.
An invite to visit Electric Universe.

What if light moves at differing speeds

Its an Electric Universe : )

[Lancey Howard]

"We're seeing the youngest stars within a stone's throw of the beginning of the universe."

Well, why don't they just point the Hubble a stone's throw away to where the "big bang" happened. I mean, the "big bang" happened in a certain spot in the universe, didn't it? So why don't they just look there?