In December of 1995, astronomers did a risky experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope. They pointed it to a region in space the size of a speck of dust that is seemingly empty and kept the telescope watching for 10 days.
They could’ve very well ended up with a blank image - but what they saw instead was something completely mind boggling.
Here’s a wonderful clip by Tony Darnell of Deep Astronomy about the Hubble Ultra Deep Field that illustrates just how humblingly small us humans are in the grand scheme of the universe. LINK: Neatorama
- Via: gizmodo
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by arbyn.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
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