150 billion pixels

[Skybird]

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmoo...a/vvvgps5.html

Use the upper right mini-pic for zooming and panning.

Visualisations like this put our thinking into perspective, don't they.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Skybird

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmoo...a/vvvgps5.html

Use the upper right mini-pic for zooming and panning.

Visualisations like this put our thinking into perspective, don't they.

Thank you for the sharing, it's marvelous to look at. I have been moving the cursor around and increasing and decreasing in and out of the space.

It do put things into perspective indeed.

Markus

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Visualisations like this put our thinking into perspective, don't they.

Yes Skybird they do indeed. We are but a speck in this cosmos.

Thanks for sharing.

[Sailor Steve]

Now that's impressive!

[Catfish]

Thanks, this is really impressive. Living on the country i can get agood view at the illuminated band we call milky way, it is well visible in not so densely habitated areas.

Billions of other stars like and unlike our sun, in our galaxy alone - and it is just an arm of our spiral galaxy, this cloudy band we call milky way. And certainly, there are more than billions of galaxies out there.
Anyway i found this pretty impressive, but the spiral galaxies being photographed by the Hubble telescope are even more unsettling.

Yep we are really important, and surely the only life ..
Maybe other life is not so far developed, or then so far that we would not be able to see it or percept it as "life", or it has already killed itself in wars.

Like Lem said, the chance to meet something else sentient is infinitesimal, in space, but also in time. This small window of contact in which we would be even able to percept something else that uses communication like we do.

But it is certainly more important to which god we pray, and which political theories are "right", on our ridiculous sandkorn.


Maybe Douglas Adams is right, and we will just be swept away, to make room for interstellar highways

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Anyway i found this pretty impressive, but the spiral galaxies being photographed by the Hubble telescope are even more unsettling.

I assume you mean the Hubble Ultimate Deep Field.

Over more than 4 months and more than 400 orbit cycles, Hubble has been focussed and exposed to the same tiny bitpiece of the sky, what they did was exposing the same image more than 800 times for - all exposures added together - more than 1 million seconds (more than eleven days and nights) to the same tiny spot up there, where they assumed to be just black, empty sky.

What that black empty bit of sky was filled with, can be seen here:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/image/a/format/zoom/

The viewing angle, the area covered by the image cvompares to 1/50th of the visible moon. The area of all visible sky at all directions would be more than 12 million times as big. Consider the Hubble viewing angle in that image to something like looking through the hull of an ampty pencil.

The original image shows some 10,000 galaxies.

10,000 galaxies in a pencil, so to speak.

Some scientists called this photo the most important picture in all history of mankind.

P.S. If one would do the Deep Field for all other parts of the sky as well, and if one would assume that in statistical mean we would see in every other picture 10,000 galaxies as well, then we would be able to see from earth, by using this technology, 127,000,000,000 galaxies.

[Skybird]

Has been posted before, too, but it nicely matches this thread somehow, too:

http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/

[Schroeder]

Boy, we are so the centre of the universe!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Boy, we are so the centre of the universe!

"We"? Everything I can see as I turn around seems to revolve around me personally. Or, as a friend of mine once said when the restaurant hostess said "Table for five"?..."I only see four."