The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

JeffH wrote: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.

Yup, we can only see the light thats mega years old.. But still very fascinating!

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

I originally missed that part of your post. Thanks for that cool link as well!

tuna wrote:

JeffH wrote: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.

Yup, we can only see the light thats mega years old.. But still very fascinating!

And to wonder... millions of years from now who might behold the light cast from our sun today? CPAP will likely be profoundly moot to those distant gazers, pensively gathering our present-day solar photons!

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A PM from one of the regulars here got me to thinking (and that is dangerous). She challenged part of the title of this post, "The Most Important Image Ever Taken". She is thinking about some medical imaging that was done for her chronic health condition.

Maybe the most important image ever taken for me was what a scope inserted in a delicate place revealed on the display. Nine years ago it showed a precancerous polyp that was surgically removed. So that makes Hubble seem unimportant.

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Distant gazer: "Fellow researchers, I have discovered something interesting about this ancient species. Their anatomy required them to both breathe and eat through the same tube. It caused them many problems. They tried many things but never evolved beyond cpap." .

rooster wrote:

-SWS wrote:.....And to wonder... millions of years from now who might behold the light cast from our sun today? CPAP will likely be profoundly moot to those distant gazers, pensively gathering our present-day solar photons!....

Distant gazer: "Fellow researchers, I have discovered something interesting about this ancient species. Their anatomy required them to both breathe and eat through the same tube. It caused them many problems. They tried many things but never evolved beyond cpap." .

The other scenario that came to mind was the likes of Apria and Lincare succumbing to the Dark Lord of the Sith and his evil intergalactic minions.

You know. Same old same old...

Excellent sites, thanks......billions and billions (as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star runs thru my head )

...a pair of binoculars and a dark night! A reclining lawn chair helps, as does being away from large metropolitan areas -- and of course 'skeeter repellent, or warm clothing! Even what can be seen in the city is amazing.

Books such as this one will help.