The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

roster · Post by **roster** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:49 pm

Wow!

Watch it while your machine is ramping up.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ

sleepydoll · Post by **sleepydoll** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:19 pm

WOW !!!!
Thanks for sharing this! IT'S awesome to see way out there in this manner.
I will definitely have some good dreaming tonight!
D.

LavenderMist · Post by **LavenderMist** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:26 pm

Pause it at 1:09 and look. It looks like you can see the face and hands of God. I didnt' see it first time I looked at it, but someone left a comment about it and I looked and I see it. This is a cool video. Thanks Rooster for sharing.

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:40 pm

Thanks Rooster! Thanks Hubble! Thanks Carl Sagan! And most of all thanks grand Cosmos!

Here's another video that complements that one regarding the grand scale of our known Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35SYkfdGtw

Unlike the accurate Hubble shots in the video posted by Rooster, this video is only a model or simulation to demonstrate the vast scale of our known Universe. How humbling!
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GumbyCT · Post by **GumbyCT** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:12 pm

Now that IS deeeep.

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:48 pm

But was it nearly as deep as those nested microcosms contemplated in the movie Animal House?

"That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_House

filbert · Post by **filbert** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:35 pm

I love the Hubble photos. I've downloaded a lot of them and created a free slideshow and screensaver from them.

http://www.ousterhout.net/slideshows.html

Enjoy!

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:50 pm

[quote="LavenderMist"]Pause it at 1:09 and look. It looks like you can see the face and hands of God. I didnt' see it first time I looked at it, but someone left a comment about it and I looked and I see it. This is a cool video. Thanks Rooster for sharing.

rested gal · Post by **rested gal** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:59 pm

rooster, -SWS, filbert...thanks for all those amazing links.

filbert, I LOVE the the beautiful photos from the Hubble you collected. Wow, wow, wowwwwww.

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:37 pm

Thank you so much, friends!
And special thanks to Filbert for creating and sharing those shows.

For a daily chage of scenery, there's NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" site: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

O.

preemiern · Post by **preemiern** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:55 pm

That was an awesome video!!! My mom's cousin is an astronomy professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago and he actually helped design and build the Hubbel Telescope. He is fascinating to talk to.
Cindy

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:29 pm

filbert wrote:I love the Hubble photos. I've downloaded a lot of them and created a free slideshow and screensaver from them.

http://www.ousterhout.net/slideshows.html

Enjoy!

Thanks for those!

roster · Post by **roster** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:32 am

ozij wrote:
Thank you so much, friends!
And special thanks to Filbert for creating and sharing those shows.

For a daily chage of scenery, there's NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" site: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

O.

Wow! Thanks everyone for adding to the thread.

O.,

Very nice. I am going to have to check that site daily.

We were just discussing this morning that NASA believes they have evidence of ice on Mars. Having not read about it I assumed the evidence was very slight. But then look at yesterday's picture of the day, http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080621.html. Pretty convincing.

Thanks,

Rooster

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:08 pm

[quote="rooster
Very nice. I am going to have to check that site daily.
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Looks like this http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/ might help with the task....

(I discovered apod so many years ago that I didn't know - till today - that we can try to automate it...)/
O.

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:33 pm

We have time machines.....just go buy yourself a telescope. I've been hooked since my first one.

The fun part is realizing that what you are looking at is not how it really is at this moment in time.

The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

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What a Universe!