Life, the Universe, and Everything
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image is a picture taken by the Hubble space telescope of the farthest visible reaches of the universe. The telescope was aimed at what looks like a completely empty patch of sky and a picture with an 11-day exposure was taken. The relative size of that patch of sky, from Earth, would be about 1/10 the width of the moon from Earth. It's an image of almost 10,000 galaxies, 78 billion light years distant. Each of the galaxies contains billions of stars.
This is ridiculous. I knew the universe was big, but I didn't realize that even a tiny speck of the sky was so amazingly, unthinkably huge. It's a little confusing, as far as what to think about it. It makes everything that we're wrapped up in on Earth seem pretty silly and insignificant, especially things like war.
What do you think?
This is ridiculous. I knew the universe was big, but I didn't realize that even a tiny speck of the sky was so amazingly, unthinkably huge. It's a little confusing, as far as what to think about it. It makes everything that we're wrapped up in on Earth seem pretty silly and insignificant, especially things like war.
What do you think?