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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Picture Of The Day

Time travel Galileo Galilei-style (click to enlarge):

This is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Starting in late 2003, astronomers pointed Hubble at a tiny, relatively empty part of our sky (only a few stars from the Milky Way visible), and created an exposure nearly 12 days long over a four-month period. The result is this amazing image, looking back through time at thousands of galaxies that range from 1 to 13 billion light-years away from Earth. Some 10,000 galaxies were observed in this tiny patch of sky (a tenth the size of the full moon) - each galaxy a home to billions of stars.
Selected from a gallery of 50 photos chosen by The Big Picture as the most significant images of the past decade. They're well worth a look.

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4 comments:

magpie said...

I posted about this on December 9.

Referenced you in it actually....
Maybe I'm dwelling in the future, but looking back through a very powerful telescope at Brain Rage.

JBW said...

How does the site look from the future, magpie? Cool? Intellectually significant? Profitable? Just trying to settle on a successful business model...

magpie said...

It looks Texan.

JBW said...

I'm sure you aren't saying that ironically...