Hubble Telescope Ultra Deep Field

Ogris · Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:41 pm

Here is some information about the image from Wikipedia. I bolded some of the very interesting parts.

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, or HUDF, is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 24, 2003 through January 16, 2004. It is the deepest image of the universe ever taken in visible light, looking back (to when the universe is thought to have been 800 million years old) approximately 13 billion years ago.

Located southwest of Orion in the Southern-Hemisphere constellation Fornax at right ascension 3h 32m 40.0s, declination -27° 47' 29" (J2000), the image covers 36.7 square arcminutes. This is smaller than a 1 mm by 1 mm square of paper held 1 meter away, and equal to roughly one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky. In total, the image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth.

The picture was taken in an presumably "black zone", an area thought to be devoid of any light.

The image alone shows over 10,000 visible galaxies.

Each of those galaxies can have up to 1 trillion stars in them. Each making their own solar systems which may contain extrasolar life.

The picture itself is too big to be uploaded to most image hosting sites so I will just post the direct link.

And here is the image, the Hubble Telescope Ultra Deep Field. All 38,440,000 pixels.

19 Meg JPG, click at your own risk

It kind of revolutionizes the the question, "Are we alone?".

TL;DR: RAEP

Wynney · Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:42 pm

this is v v v random.

Wigouche · Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:45 pm

file not found lol

and we already knew tht the univers extends tht far n tht further even lol probabllity and evidence on asterod debri says there is or has been ant least basic life elsewere than erth in this galaxy alone let alone the rest

Skillers · Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:53 pm

Some interesting stuff, but your link is broken. It appears to have been subject to some shortening thing as there is a ... in the middle.

Ogris · Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:06 am

Wynney wrote:

this is v v v random.

Not as random as me downloading a 200MB picture for my desktop.
Link fixed

Skillers · Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:10 am

Nice pic, it's really amazing what you can't see with the naked eye.

azcn2503 · Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:00 am

This is allegedly the most important picture ever taken in the history of the universe.

Wigouche · Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:49 am

well its most definately the single hardest picture to ever been taken

Ogris · Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:14 am

Well, what you do see on that picture is 14 billion years old, so god knows what is over there now.

But if thats just a small microscopic dot in a huge ocean, it just makes you realize how small and unimportant Earth is.

DHR-107 · Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:24 pm

It also means the odds are greatly stacked that there IS other intelligent life out there.... There has to be with that many galaxies, solar systems and planets out there...

Though, if I was an Alien, I wouldn't visit Earth....

Lord Metritutus · Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:11 pm

Not only that, because what we're seeing is billions of years old, we wont see their empires/civilizations for 'some time,' and then it will be too late! :O

Skillers · Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:39 pm

Heh, they could have evolved waaay before us. The time of humans is relatively nothing compared with the time of everything.

Wynney · Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:23 pm

or they may not have evolved yet, the beuty is nobody knows.

Wigouche · Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:28 pm

lol yeah th only form of life found is wha we cn define as fosilised extreemifile cells tht theres tht thy never made a big thing of cause thy wernt 100% sure of thers source

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