Hubble Deep Field Image

[1ViciousGSX]

I don't know if you've seen this before, but it's a pic taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a picture that was taken in a dark spot in the sky as far away as Hubble could see. It makes up a spot about the size of a dime 75 feet away in relation to the surrounding sky. All of those dots are galaxies. Makes us seem really small in the scope of things.

Hubble Deep Field Image (http://www.seds.org/hst/HDFWF3.html)

You can click on the Index tab on that page to see more also.

[Halon]

Ya I love astronomy stuff. There was supposed to be a Satellite orbiting saturn by now too if i remember right. Anyone know where you can go to look at it's pictures?

[Matt D.]

Originally posted by me612@Sep 4 2004, 07:04 PM
Ya I love astronomy stuff. There was supposed to be a Satellite orbiting saturn by now too if i remember right. Anyone know where you can go to look at it's pictures?
Here you go. The mission is called Cassini-Huygens, named after two signifcant astronomers who helped in identifying Saturn and it's rings. Cassini is the name of the orbiter, and Huygens is the name of the probe that is to be launched and landed on Titan, the largest of Saturn's 31 known moons. Lots of very good information on this site.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

[LightningGSX]

Originally posted by 1ViciousGSX@Sep 4 2004, 06:10 PM
I don't know if you've seen this before, but it's a pic taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a picture that was taken in a dark spot in the sky as far away as Hubble could see. It makes up a spot about the size of a dime 75 feet away in relation to the surrounding sky. All of those dots are galaxies. Makes us seem really small in the scope of things.

Hubble Deep Field Image (http://www.seds.org/hst/HDFWF3.html)

You can click on the Index tab on that page to see more also.
I remember when that pic was released, it makes me wonder how some people still believe we are alone in the universe.Even if the odds were 1 in a billion(statistically non existant) that one of those stars had a planet hospitable to life, and on that planet the odds were one in a billion that life could have started, there would be probably a few million civilizations present in the picture alone.

[vapour24]

Originally posted by me612@Sep 4 2004, 07:04 PM
Ya I love astronomy stuff.  There was supposed to be a Satellite orbiting saturn by now too if i remember right.  Anyone know where you can go to look at it's pictures?
agreed


http://www.SPACE.com represent

[SuperSleeper]

It's amazing how insignificant one photo can make a person feel. Very cool.

[JDM]

I feel small. Makes you wonder when we'll make contact with other living biengs from elsewhere.

And by elsewhere I don't mean Wisconsin.

Joe and Ryan...

[niterydr]

sweeet.
Imagine the 'gearheads' on a different planet...

[Emcee gsxtc]

Now that makes ya just feel like a sack of shit doesnt it? Now I almost dont feel like making any money today, but life goes on. An insignificant spec like me wants to jump in an insignificat spec of a ferrari and travel and travel as close as I can to the speed of sound, since the speed of light is a little of the charts. Crazy :ohmy:

[Matt D.]

In the BIG picture, even the speed of light isn't that fast. We are hundreds and thousands of light years away from most other celestial bodies, which would mean it would take hundreds and thousands of years to reach them traveling at light speed. If we're ever going to go anywhere outside of our solar system in the future we're going to have to travel faster than light.