Hubble uses its new and improved imaging equipment to capture glimpses of distant galaxies never before seen
Posted 12.08.2009 at 2:00 pm
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Hubble's Deepest Ever Look Into the Universe: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (UCO/Lick Observatory and Leiden University) and the HUDF09 Team
Taken with the Hubble’s newly-installed Wide Field Camera 3, Hubble gathered light from near-infrared wavelengths, allowing scientists to see how galaxies developed early in the universe’s history. The research implications are vast; several research teams are currently searching for undiscovered galaxies that were previously undetectable. Some researchers are convinced Hubble is on the verge of discovering "quantum foam"--a model for the foundation of the universe and a big step toward to reconciling relativity and quantum mechanics. Perhaps most importantly, Hubble is laying some important groundwork for NASA and ESA’s next-gen space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will enter service in 2014.
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Technology, Clay Dillow, esa, hubble space telescope, james webb space telescope, nasa, SpaceThough JWST is launching in 2014, don’t make the mistake of thinking Hubble is done making new discoveries; though JWST is superior to Hubble in many technological respects, it will only observe in infrared, leaving the visible and ultraviolet spectra to Hubble’s capable eyes.
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really an amazing pic. if you look at the star in the fore ground lower right you can almost make out things around it.
This is going on my wall. My 15' wall. hehehe
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from New York, New York
Wow, that is beautiful.
It looks like snow
who knows maybe all those galaxies we can see have a form of extra terrestrial organisms and maybe they look just like humans exepept with a lower capacity for war
ASS
It's pretty mind-blowing when you think about how these objects are not only incredibly far away, but also so very far back in time. Hubble's really proven to be an amazing investment.
from montreal, quebec
high res = 1920x1080 or more
not 1300x1080
Guys, these are galaxies not stars. How tiny I feel.
No bang, big or small, to be seen yet. It still goes on and on...
What would happen if they keep the shutter open for, let's say 20 days?
which one is never-never land?
from neverland
Thank you hubble, for a picture of our childhood memories :)
wow. it looks like another universe.
if only the big bang were real maybe you could see it.
Time the "clever people" realized a big bang could never have created this awesome environment and its plain as 'day' that a much larger hand is at work here bearing in mind this is viewed from merely one portion of one pixel of one direction - too much information for us puny humans to ever fathom.
Perhaps most importantly, Hubble is laying some important groundwork for NASA and ESA’s next-gen space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will enter service in 2014.
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