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Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the Universe
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| September 26, 2012
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Posted on 09/26/2012 7:22:19 PM PDT by lbryce
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What's really mind-boggling is that the image is merely an infinitesimal fraction of the full depth of range just for this very narrow perspective.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:22:24 PM PDT
by
lbryce
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:23:49 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(BHO-"Now, I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" by way of Oppenheimer at Trinity, NM)
To: lbryce
Just a tiny fraction of an inch square of the sky.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:25:28 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: lbryce
My God does good work. Marvelous are His works.
/johnny
To: lbryce
Galaxies like grains of sand...
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:34:13 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(“...the other side wants everything in America to be free, except us.” Paul Ryan)
To: lbryce
...10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky ... a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon.... The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see. And some would have you believe it's all just.... coincidence.
I often wonder what the late Carl Sagan thinks about, just now.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:34:33 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
To: lbryce
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”
Can you imagine the ability to see and know all that has been created, with “knowing” that is not limited by our human perspective and senses...to finally “see” our God’s magnificent tapestry of creation as He sees it.
I can’t wait!
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:35:30 PM PDT
by
dadgum
(Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
To: JRandomFreeper
The farther we peer into the heavens the shorter our vision becomes.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:35:59 PM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
To: lbryce
Has it found Obama’s birth certificate yet ?
To: Louis Foxwell
Did you see Nemo the clownfish at the bottom of the picture?
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:38:26 PM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
To: cripplecreek
The field is smaller than a grain of sand held at arm’s length. Yet it contains some 5,000+ galaxies. Galaxies typically contain 50-200 billion stars (each). The furthest objects in the field (galaxies and/or proto-galaxies) are reported to be some 13.2 billion light years away, ONE light year, the distance light travels in a year at its basically constant speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to be about 6 TRILLION miles. So these objects, now redshifted into much longer wavelengths by virtue of universal expansion, are in the neighborhood of 13.2 billion times 6 trillion miles away from us. And they’re 13.2 billion years older by now. Did I screw up on any of this?
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:42:03 PM PDT
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: workerbee
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:46:08 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: ETL
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:46:25 PM PDT
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: lbryce
The deep, then the ultra deep and now the xtreme deep ... my favorite picture... it is and has been my desk top and if I need to clear my mind and start over I just look at it and go “WOW”
TT
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:46:35 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
To: lbryce
There is a lot more nothing than something out there thats even more amazing
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:47:53 PM PDT
by
al baby
(“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
To: ETL
Well, when you put it that way, I guess I'm ready to give up me liver after all!
To: Alas Babylon!
To: Noumenon
Galaxies like grains of sand... It's been said that the galaxies of our universe are more numerous than all the grains of sand on our planet. Realizing that this image is but a tiny slice of the visible sky, one can't help but ponder that fact in all its enormity.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:56:02 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: workerbee
And some would have you believe it's all just.... coincidence.It is incredible how nature provides all these convenient 'clues' for us to learn about it. From simple starlight (via spectroscopy) we can determine a star's chemical composition, its temperature, its motion, its distance, on and on. We'd never be able to know these things otherwise. The nearest star, aside from the Sun, is roughly 25 trillion miles away.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:57:41 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Alas Babylon!
Lol! Love Monty Python.
“This is the planet Algon, fifth world in the system of Aldebaran, the Red Giant in the constellation of Sagittarius. Here an ordinary cup of drinking chocolate costs four million pounds, an immersion heater for the hot-water tank costs over six billion pounds, and a pair of split-crotch panties would be almost unobtainable.”
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/algon.php
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posted on
09/26/2012 8:02:34 PM PDT
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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