i think i'm going to throw up
This image from the Hubble telescope shows innumerable galaxies slowly spinning in deep space. If you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you 100-thousand years to go from one end of our own Milkyway galaxy to the other. And that's just one, relatively humble little galaxy. Look at all those fricking galaxies!! I can't get my mind around the vastness this image represents. Then again, I have a hard time not putting my underwear on backwards each morning.
posted by mrhappypants @ 12:04 PM
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Don't forget, that is a long exposure of the the "darkest spot" in the sky, so chosen because lower power astronomical surveys showed it to be devoid of anything. So that's how much there is where there is "nothing". (In all fairness, astronomers knew theoretically that there were more galaxies there, they just never had the resolution before Hubble to actually image them.)
Nerd out.
have you ever seen Astronomy Picture of the Day? the pictures are FANTASTIC. check out the link:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
a new one EVERY DAY. your mind will be forever in wonder.
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