Okay, I think this is really cool, and as some of you know, I'm always sticking up for Hubble. It's wonderful... But to me, the new image shown here looks an awfully lot like the one from the Hubble Deep Field, that came out a few years ago or so. Are any of you astronomer enough or in the know enough to explain this to me? I really expected something a little different. Is it possible that the science writer/editor just used an image from the previous project? Perhaps it's just that this new image naturally contains all the "stuff" that was at the distance of the HDF, and the exciting new HUDF is in the very faint background of these new images.
I think you might have to look at the High-resoluton files to really, really tell a difference. 72 dpi might not do it justice. Everything is the same scale so it is hard to tell when you are zooming in. Your small dots become the big dots, and there are new small dots.
They are the *not* the same image Mr. B-Bob please edit your message immediately. Two large men in a black suits will be coming to your home for dinner tonight.
Here's a great link: Nasa's Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive It has a wallpaper-sized image of the deep space shot, and it's got a different pic every day - always awesome. Just remember that you're standing on a planet that evolving And reolving at nine thousand miles an hour... -- droxford
Trying to comprehend the scale of that photograph results in a scrambled mind. It make thadeus head hurt ow. thadeus smash! thadeus smash!
The picture is beautiful. Even spectacular. But not daunting to me. The hubble is great for looking. But I want to touch these galaxies. My theory of time travel and space exploration is simple, change the direction of the Galaxy or the Sun and we'll go with it. We can cover much more ground that way. I want to touch this stuff now that I can see it.
Are those actual pictures or are they artists renditions (Or fractal imaging) of data? Does that make sense?They seem a little too perfect...if they are legit then WOW. If they are a visual representation of 0's and 1's then still wow but more of a wow. CLM
The Hubble gives you a "real" view of the cosmos... like you would see with your eyes. (it does a lot more as well) It is the only orbiting optical telescope that does this. It's criminal if we lose it before we have a replacement and after we've already spent an enormous amount of money for improvements that will make it even better. The upgrades are sitting in storage now, waiting for a shuttle mission astronauts have already trained for, that will never happen if the Bush Administration gets it's way.
