Saturday, December 16, 2006

Spaced out Sundays


This is without a doubt the most humbling photograph I have ever seen. NASA aimed the Hubble telescope into what they thought was an empty part of space, a miniscule portion of the sky the width of a dime 75 feet away. What they found was
"a bewildering assortment of at least 1,500galaxies at various stages of evolution."
Every single light source in the photo is a galaxy…over 1,500 of them…captured by telescope in the barest sliver of the universe.

We are so small. We know so little.

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