Check this out!

[Ron Sower]

http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm

[Mugwump]

That is pretty jaw dropping, isn't it?.....just amazing

[BillT]

I love this stuff.
The immensity of things is awesome. This is why science fiction is so dependent upon faster than light mechanisms for space stories. Civilizations could rise and fall before you could cross the shortest distance across our galaxy in a sub-light speed space ship.

I actuality, I think that these kinds of experiments where one of the main reasons the Hubble was built. These experiments were clearly in mind before it was built.

When I was a kid in the 60's I checked out (of the library) astronomy books) the description of galaxies in them was very confused such that it did not even may sense to me at the time. Many galaxies were thought of a just gas clouds and the whole concept of inside and outside the galaxy was not very clear. Hubble (the guy who figured a lot of this out died) in 1953. So I guess the library books were probably fairly out of date.

Here is one of my favorite songs on this:

[Barb]

Wow!  When I was a little girl, my dad used to tell my brother and I that "There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in all the world".  I always wondered if this is correct.
Barb

[BallAquatics]

The Hubble Space Telescope was the reason I purchased a Zeiss microscope.....

Dennis