[gremlin]

My boyfriend showed me this video. I thought that I would share it on Trisphee.

Ignore the random ten seconds of the guy singing/dancing, skip it. The creator of the video threw it in there I guess to make sure that people were paying attention. Enjoy having your mind blown.

"In September 2003 the Hubble did it again, this time it looked at another remarkable section of time and looked at it for a little over eleven days. -
This is called the Ultra Deep Field, it represents the farthest that we have ever seen into the Universe. There are over 10,000 Galaxies within this photo. Every single dot, smudge and smear is an entire Galaxy. Each one of these dots has millions and millions of stars, each star has the possibility of planets orbiting it and each planet the chance of a civilization. This is the number of Galaxies within nothing. This is a picture of 78 billion lightyears, this is a reminder of how small we are and it is the single most important picture that has ever been taken by humanity."

Discuss the video above, share other videos and photos of space discoveries and all of that awesome stuff. o uo

[Pinkie]

Oh my your posting about a topic near to my heart! I fallow everything space wise....hubble is the greatest thing so far. All the new worlds and stars we find as well as the nebulas and birthplaces of stars...ohhh my =dies=

[gremlin]

It makes me feel really emotional to know that that is out there and that it is only a small part of the Universe, that isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

[Pinkie]

Oh god no! There are so many galaxies and solar systems out there that we havent even found them all. We find new ones every day! Not to mention that our solar system is changing allways! Like pluto no longer a planet, the transit of venus, the astroid that smashed into jupitor!!! So much to know yet so much more to understand!!!!

[gremlin]

Yeah plus the Universe is always expanding, there's just more and more every day. And an asteroid hit Jupiter? When did that happen?

[Suzerain of Sheol]

The logistics of that are absolutely mind-blowing. I can't even wrap my head around the way distance and time are conflated in something like that.

Also, not entirely related, but for anyone who's interested in SETI and such things, this is an absolutely fascinating read, I find.

And, apparently, in a relatively short astronomical amount time, the other galaxies will have moved so far away, and have accelerated so much, that light will no longer be able to reach us from then and our hypothetical descendants will be unable to even perceive that the Milky Way isn't the whole of the universe. Does anyone know if that's true or not? It's... kind if profoundly saddening if it is, but I suppose it makes us even luckier.

[gremlin]

I'm going to give that a read, thank you so much for the link. :D

[Gaius]

Isn't that photo awesome? We are really quite minuscule. It's extremely difficult to put that in perspective nearly as well as this photo does. We have a limited range of sizes that we are comfortable with because we experience them everyday. And everything else is just really big or really small. It's really exciting when you begin to think beyond that.