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!!
Infinity makes me angry.
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.
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.
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.
It would not surprise me if there was life in every single one of those galaxies
Just knowing that every galaxy is teaming with trillions of planetary bodies with seas, and life, and goodness knows what else is sooooo tantalizing.
I wish I had an Encyclopedia Galactica with all the answers.
Psalm 8:3-4
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
I see global warming
