Plankter
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- Aug 14, 2018
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This is the Ultra Deep Field image taken by the Hubble telescope:
You may have seen it before, it's a popular image. Unless you have, let me introduce you to my favorite picture ever.
Everything you see in the picture besides the 3 or 4 bright spots (which are stars) are galaxies (there are about 10000). The Hubble telescope gathered data for a total of 11.3 days to compose this stunning shot of our universe. It is thought that the oldest galaxies in the picture could be 13 billion years old. That's a distance of ~1.2*10^26 kilometers (13 billion light years)! And all this chaotic beauty is only 3.4 arc-minutes (~0.05 degrees) wide diagonally! Sometimes when I feel down, I zoom in and just gaze at the galaxies and remember how insignificant my existence is. I feel overwhelmed by the scale of the universe yet also unwound to realize that no matter how much we try, we will never know everything, we won't even see everything, in fact we won't even know how much of "everything" is left to see. That reminds me that in the grand scheme of things, nothing really matters...
Then literally anything slightly inconvenient happens and I want to cry myself to sleep forever
(sources: spacetelescope.org, Wikipedia (I'm really not an academic person or anything, so I comfortably cite Wikipedia))
(spacetelesope page: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0611b/)
(you should download it in full resolution if you want to take a closer look)
You may have seen it before, it's a popular image. Unless you have, let me introduce you to my favorite picture ever.
Everything you see in the picture besides the 3 or 4 bright spots (which are stars) are galaxies (there are about 10000). The Hubble telescope gathered data for a total of 11.3 days to compose this stunning shot of our universe. It is thought that the oldest galaxies in the picture could be 13 billion years old. That's a distance of ~1.2*10^26 kilometers (13 billion light years)! And all this chaotic beauty is only 3.4 arc-minutes (~0.05 degrees) wide diagonally! Sometimes when I feel down, I zoom in and just gaze at the galaxies and remember how insignificant my existence is. I feel overwhelmed by the scale of the universe yet also unwound to realize that no matter how much we try, we will never know everything, we won't even see everything, in fact we won't even know how much of "everything" is left to see. That reminds me that in the grand scheme of things, nothing really matters...
Then literally anything slightly inconvenient happens and I want to cry myself to sleep forever
(sources: spacetelescope.org, Wikipedia (I'm really not an academic person or anything, so I comfortably cite Wikipedia))
(spacetelesope page: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0611b/)
(you should download it in full resolution if you want to take a closer look)
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