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Old 08-13-2009, 04:23 PM   #1
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Thumbs up Amazing Video - The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

This deserved to be outside the ongoing science thread, the new updated camera and software did an new ultra deep field image and the results are even more mind blowing than before.

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There are approximately 10,000 separate galaxies in this tiny little piece of sky. Well, the good folks at NASA and the ESA have created a 3-D flythough simulation of the image, showing you what it would look like if you actually flew through this image! Now that you know how distances work in cosmology, all they had to do was measure the redshift of each galaxy and program it in. Tony Darnell narrates it, and I've embedded it for you right here! (You can start at the 2:53 mark if you want to skip the intro.) And remember, as you watch it, that each dot of light in this image is a galaxy, comparable to our own Milky Way, with nearly a trillion stars, only one of which is our own Sun.
The article from my favorite Astronomy website:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab...eah_hubble.php

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Also as a last neat video an amazing short video of the Milky Way moving across the Texas sky.

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wow, that is unreal! Thanks!
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Having just watched Futurama, I was hoping one of those galaxy would splatter on the windshield and need to be cleaned off with the wipers.
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Here's the spot of sky Hubble looked at this time around for this ultra deep look:



and if people want to know more about this historic image, check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field
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and yet some people think that we are alone in the universe

looking at those thousands of galaxies, all with billions of stars with potentially trillions of planets orbiting them, how could someone ever think that there isn't sentient life elsewhere in the universe
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They should do this in actual (stereo) 3D.
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Video HD montage of the new Hubble images, amazing stuff as usual, you can skip to 1:20 to go straight to the images.

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Just to give you an idea of the difference the upgrade to hubble has made, here's a before and after of Stephan's Quintet:

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As always pictures courtesy of the best Astronomy blog out there http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/
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and yet some people think that we are alone in the universe

looking at those thousands of galaxies, all with billions of stars with potentially trillions of planets orbiting them, how could someone ever think that there isn't sentient life elsewhere in the universe
Because God picked out the earth 6000 years ago to put life on, why would he do it elsewhere?
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Outstanding!
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Why are pictures from space so beautiful?

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Why are pictures from space so beautiful?

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because they're free from human influence...
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