Hubble gets birds eye view photograph of galaxy M82

[Melkane]

HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81 (05/28/2007) - Release Images (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/19/image/a/)

[budsmoker only]

man that shit is tight...
its crazy to think what if there is some people out in that universe and shit, and that we will probly never know, i personally think there is some kind of life form out there somewhere.....
damn... :stoned:

[Divadish]

Pictures like this really blow my mind, (especially when i'm high) just thinking about the sheer size and scale of what we're looking at. What will it be 50-100,000 light years across ?,the distances are just fu"*in mindboggling.Beautiful yet intimidating.

[FreeVenice]

11.6 million light-years away

[sonic titan]

:D I'm so excited to live, just to see all of the things we'll uncover in my lifetime.

[Staurm]

Everyday I go to sleep to some level blown away at the complexity of what I see each day when I wake up.

[GoldenGoblin]

Everyday I go to sleep to some level blown away at the complexity of what I see each day when I wake up.

amen:D

[oldsanclem]

The optical reciever of the Hubble assy.
One was made and for the dection of breast canser.
The person is put on a table with seal to block out any light. The room is totaly dark.
The Breast are hit with lights of different freq's . The reflection from the breast cell are picked up by the photo reciever. A XYZ location is made. Then a probe is inserted into the breast at the XYZ location and a sample is taken out.
This system passed the FDA in ONE DAY, its saves lives on earth.
Note 10%+ of breast cancer are Male.
NASA has a CD that out of this world with pictures from the Hubble scope.

[obxguy86]

How awesome is that, just make you think how small we are in the real grand sceme of things... everyone of those light dots is a star with probable planets, there are 400 BILLION planets in the Milky Way galaxy(our galaxy) alone, and there are over a trillion galaxies in our observable universe. FYI- our observable univese is less than one one hundreths of a tenth of the total universe.. wayy less. With ALLLLLL those stars and planets out there, there must be life, even intelligent life somewhere out there, and its probably rather common. I mean if it wasn't... It would sure be a waste of space....

From Future Hi: Life, Universe and Everything (http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000168.html):.....

According to the standard inflationary model of cosmology, the visible portion of our universe; the one mapped by our telescopes is an infinitesimally small speck in a much larger universe of at least a 1035 light-year across! I admit this number is really, really big, and almost impossible to imagine. So lets shrink everything down, WAY down, just so we can get a better grasp of it. Let's imagine that the entire universe that we have seen in all the world telescopes, all the galaxies, all trillion of them, extending out 13 billion light years in every direction is shrunk down to the size of a golf ball. Now you are holding the entire visible universe in the palm of your hand. So how big is the actualy 1035 lightyear universe in comparison? If we do a volume calculation, the actual universe contains 1060 of those golf balls! Wow, I guess we didn't shrink things down far enough, but this will have to do. So how big a volume would 1060 golf balls fill up? Try a sphere 850 light years across! So imagine a mass of golf balls that big, and each one of those golf balls contains all the stars and galaxies that we can see through our telescopes.

[Ganj]

i was watching how nasa equips their telescopes to take such magnificent pictures with great clarity. they actually beam a laser into space, this laser then acts as the telescopes calibrator which they can adjust to obtain the clearest images. great find, melkane. did you see how bright that star is?! my goodness, i was squinting upon zoom.