Astounding photo showing thousands of galaxies (not Hubble Deep Field)

[BrokenVisage]

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/go...in_galaxy_string_4.jpg

:Q

 

[mugs]

That's amazing that they actually look like miniature galaxies. I'd have expected just blobs of light.

 

[illusion88]

What is that a picture of? Where in the night sky?

 

[loup garou]

:shocked:

 

[Phokus]

Funny, that looks photoshopped to me

 

[Aharami]

WOW!!!!!! that is amazing!

 

[vi edit]

Woah. Is there a story/caption to this with a little more explanation as to how it was done?

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Funny, that looks photoshopped to me

yes, im sure some lowly nasa tech got bored on his night shift and put up a photoshopped pic on the nasa servers

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Woah. Is there a story/caption to this with a little more explanation as to how it was done?

Got lucky with Googling "main galaxy string".

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Woah. Is there a story/caption to this with a little more explanation as to how it was done?

Got lucky with Googling "main galaxy string".

"artist's concept"

Still cool anyways!

 

[ObiDon]

there's no way that's an actual photograph. there's a lot of identical/mirror image galaxies in that picture.

 

[OutHouse]

artist redention or not thats cool.

There is no way a logical person can say that Earth is the only life in the entire universe.

 

[sao123]

sure looks like hubble deep field.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Damn, I figured it was real and just focused on a much smaller portion of the sky and that's how it got too look so detailed. Still pretty nicely made.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Woah. Is there a story/caption to this with a little more explanation as to how it was done?

Got lucky with Googling "main galaxy string".

"artist's concept"

Still cool anyways!

Phokus - 1
Aharami - 0

 

[theMan]

Man, did you read the article? That stuff is insane. Good luck astronomers! :beer:

 

[PimpJuice]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Woah. Is there a story/caption to this with a little more explanation as to how it was done?

Got lucky with Googling "main galaxy string".

"artist's concept"

Still cool anyways!

"We are seeing this string as it was when the Universe was only a fifth of its present age," said Woodgate. "That is, we are looking back four-fifths of the way to the beginning of the Universe as a result of the Big Bang."

 

[ChaoZ]

Makes me wish I was born in Futurama times.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Did anyone catch the stargate coordinates to those galaxies? I have some vacation time coming up.

 

[ElFenix]

how much has the universe expanded in the last four-fifths of existence?

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: PimpJuice

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Woah. Is there a story/caption to this with a little more explanation as to how it was done?

Got lucky with Googling "main galaxy string".

"artist's concept"

Still cool anyways!

"We are seeing this string as it was when the Universe was only a fifth of its present age," said Woodgate. "That is, we are looking back four-fifths of the way to the beginning of the Universe as a result of the Big Bang."

That made my head hurt.

 

[ObiDon]

"the galaxy is on Orion's belt"

 

[antillean]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
how much has the universe expanded in the last four-fifths of existence?

4x what it was at 1/5??

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: illusion88
What is that a picture of? Where in the night sky?

None of those galaxies are observable to the naked eye.

The beauty of these things to me is the vastness of scale. You can see how the revolve around and collide into each other, but due to the relation between space and time, at a pace so slowly as to make time infinite to our frame of reference. I recall an image of 2 galaxies colliding, and it was an though a rock had been thrown into a pond, but to us it was though frozen in time and space. It's absolutely fascinating. All of humanity exists on an infintesimal speck of dust that whizzes dizzyingly around a tiny glowing ember within a cloud of other glowing embers and bits of dust within a sea of such clouds.

 

[Eli]

It's truly mind boggling how insignificant we are. :laugh: