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Hubble Deep Field: Assistance with Perspective
posted Saturday, 11 November 2006
In this famous, but underreported photograph from 2004, the Hubble Space Telescope, recently the subject of a long overdue decision to fund repairs, shows us the huge population of distant galleries. If you were to gaze up at the night sky, the only way to see the area of sky covered by this photograph would be to gaze through an 8 foot long (roughly) straw. In other words, by the naked eye the 1/4 inch diameter of a standard drinking straw would be reduced by roughly 8 orders of magnitude and resulting photograph of that area of the night sky results in the above photo. Each of the dots represents not a star, but a galaxy, like our own Milky Way, containing billions if not trillions of stars. As light travels at a constant rate, by triangulation we can determine that the most distant of these objects are over a billion light years distant. As such, the light passing from those objects to us took over a billion years to get here and thus represent the state of these objects over one billion years ago.
Some say that the world was created some 6,000 years ago on a Tuesday in October, a belief which bears some further investigation.
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