Posted on 06/03/2014 1:04:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving universe -- and one of the most colorful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field project. Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI)
Space & astronomy ping!....................
I’d say God is a good painter!! And his rainbows are awesome!!
.... and He never paints outside the lines!................
Infinity makes me angry.
Now this photo is 10,000 galaxies.
The width of field is very, very small, and is taken in a sector that has few nearby stars to blot out the light.
So, there must be millions, if not billions of galaxies out there we’ve never seen.......................
It’ll end sooner or later.................
What I want know is how a thinking person can look at that and say “Yup, we are alone in the universe”.
Not sure which boggles the mind more. That pic and the sheer awesomeness of it or the arrogance behind us being alone in it all.
What makes me angry is I am stuck here and not “out there”.
Do you know how many stars you can count under the best conditions? About 2,500 to 3,000. But that faintly glowing band of light you see in the further distance is the combined light of probably a billion stars. This, however, is still only a tiny fraction of a percentage of the total number of stars in our galaxy.
Attempting to imagine the hugeness of the universe (is hugeness a word?) is just as much an exercise in futility. A million earths could fit inside the sun. If the sun were the size of a marble (1 cm across), just the nearest star would be another marble 180 miles away. And there are about 400 billion stars just in our galaxy. And there are about a trillion galaxies within the visible universe.
Billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars within them.
There must be a billion earths out there or more...........................
And yet we are doomed to be trapped in our own solar system for the foreseeable future. That is until someone can figure out a way around the galaxy that doesn’t take centuries and huge amounts of energy...............
God’s awesomeness, on display, in color.
Our best scientists have yet to create one self-sustaining fusion reaction of more than 5 seconds. This picture shows that God has trillions of these that have been operating for billions of years.
We used to get blitzed and joke like 60s liberals about ‘Infinity....like wow man” when I was a young lad. But when you seriously ponder the number of stars, much less planets...Ouch. Serious brain hurt.
There have to be MANY earths out there. VERY many.
I’m afraid that is an exercise in futility as well. There are no short cuts to the basic laws of physics, I think. It will take a huge amount of energy and a long time for just one trip to the nearest star, based on what we know (and apart from popular sci fi). I used to think “why are the stars so far away from each other?” Well, it’s actually a good thing they are, or they would be crashing into each other all the time. Not good for us.
An infinite number of universes?
An infinite number of identicalineveryway universes?
Now I am really angry!
Recent reliable estimates of the total number of galaxies in the portion of our universe that is observable are in the range of hundreds of billions of galaxies, averaging roughly two hundred billion stars per galaxy.
We need an improbability engine.
If we could manipulate time, we could go anywhere.....................
If wishes were horses.......
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