Hubble pic

[thekirbyfake]

I happened upon a show last night which featured shots from the Hubble telescope. The image below was taken with a one million second exposure!!! (That's 11.3 days in old money)

[baz7175]

I've a pic somewhere almost identical from shooting in a nightclub, camera was left on by mistake and shutter released - seemed to just pick up loads of random glitter or something else on the floor reflecting the light

Edited by baz7175 on Monday 5th January 17:10

[Stu247]

That's the dirtiest sensor i've ever seen !!!

[arej]

That picture is called "ultra deep field" IIRC and it shows the first recorded visible light in the universe, from 13 billion years ago which is about 1/2 billion years after the Big Bang.

[Steve Evil]

Awe-inspiring picture.

Really puts into perspective looking at all that just how much else is out there.

[bob1179]

There are many galaxies and many billions of stars in that picture, I think is beautiful and mind boggling at the same time.

I wonder how many civilisations there could be in that one picture? How many have been and gone in the eons that the picture covers?

Or, are we alone in the universe?

To me it raises so many exciting questions. I love space and that fact we have so much to explore and learn about.

[Whitefly Swatter]

bob1179 said:

There are many galaxies and many billions of stars in that picture, I think is beautiful and mind boggling at the same time.

I wonder how many civilisations there could be in that one picture? How many have been and gone in the eons that the picture covers?

Or, are we alone in the universe?

To me it raises so many exciting questions. I love space and that fact we have so much to explore and learn about.

laws of probability say at least one more

[bob1179]

Whitefly Swatter said:

bob1179 said:

There are many galaxies and many billions of stars in that picture, I think is beautiful and mind boggling at the same time.

I wonder how many civilisations there could be in that one picture? How many have been and gone in the eons that the picture covers?

Or, are we alone in the universe?

To me it raises so many exciting questions. I love space and that fact we have so much to explore and learn about.

laws of probability say at least one more

That is my view on the whole subject. Statistically there has to life elsewhere in the universe, there are so many stars and as we are quickly finding out, so many planets out there that life of some sort must have developed. I would love to know what it is like and whether it has evolved to the point that they may be thinking the same thing as us.

The only sad thing is that due to the vast distances involved and the relatively slow speed of light over those distances, the chance that we could ever meet or communicate is nigh on nil. Unless there is some technology or aspect of physics that we haven't uncovered yet that could allow us to do so.

[Legmaster]

You need to watch this to make sense of the picture:

The Most Important Image Ever Taken

[Mr Noble]

Thats my most favoritest pic ever!

I have a 3 foot square canvas of it in my office. Helps remind me of just how insignificant our little planet is and how mindless all the fighting is on it!!

Greg

[Viper_Larry]

Mr Noble said:

Thats my most favoritest pic ever!

I have a 3 foot square canvas of it in my office. Helps remind me of just how insignificant our little planet is and how mindless all the fighting is on it!!

Greg

[LukeBird]

Mr Noble said:

Thats my most favoritest pic ever!

I have a 3 foot square canvas of it in my office. Helps remind me of just how insignificant our little planet is and how mindless all the fighting is on it!!

Greg

Yeah we should at least be battling Darth Vader, not each other!


On topic, cracking images!

[dilbert]

bob1179 said:

There are many galaxies and many billions of stars in that picture, I think is beautiful and mind boggling at the same time.

I wonder how many civilisations there could be in that one picture? How many have been and gone in the eons that the picture covers?

Or, are we alone in the universe?

To me it raises so many exciting questions. I love space and that fact we have so much to explore and learn about.

Perhaps in that picture there aren't any. At redshifts like those you're looking so far back in time, that the fundamental nature of galactic bodies is different. They're hotter, probably live for shorter periods.

It's a reasonable question to ask, when in the past did galaxies become capable of producing solar systems that could sustain what we think of as life.

Perhaps I'm wrong about that picture, but there must have been a point in the past when the universe was incapable of producing life sustaining solar systems.

[Xenocide]

Does anyone have a really hi definition version of it?

[VxDuncan]

Xenocide said:

Does anyone have a really hi definition version of it?

There aren't any really high resolution versions, as Hubbles main optical imager is only a few MP. Think a max res version is on Wikipedia.

However, I have heard that on the advise of one of the "Shop Colleauges" from PC World NASA are going to build new one with more Mega Pixels, a touch screen and face detection.

[_dobbo_]

Funnily enough there is a new space telescope on the way to replace Hubble but I don't recall seeing face recognition on the list of features!

Hi-res enough for you?

My personal favourite Hubble picture is this one



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[LukeBird]

VxDuncan said:

Xenocide said:

Does anyone have a really hi definition version of it?

There aren't any really high resolution versions, as Hubbles main optical imager is only a few MP. Think a max res version is on Wikipedia.

However, I have heard that on the advise of one of the "Shop Colleauges" from PC World NASA are going to build new one with more Mega Pixels, a touch screen and face detection.

I have a photo from a satellite (which I would assume was Hubble) that is enormous.
Demensions are 25000x17000 or something silly! It's a 700mb TIFF.
I could check how big it is, but I have to leave for work in 10 mins and I don't have 5mins to waste letting PS open!

[Office_Monkey]

Legmaster said:

You need to watch this to make sense of the picture:

The Most Important Image Ever Taken

That is quite a piece of video