Very Cool Hubble Telescope Images

[WSUCougar]

Check out this stuff from deep space. Incredible!

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space/0403/gallery.hubble.deepfield/tz.05.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space/0307/gallery.hubble.heritage/tz.02.little.ghost.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/02/16/farthest.galaxy.ap/story.distant.galaxy.cnn.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/05/starry.vangogh.reut/tz.starrynight.cnn.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space/0307/gallery.hubble.heritage/tz.08.supernova.1987A.nasa.jpg

The most recent related CNN.com article is HERE (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/09/hubble.farthest/index.html)

[WSUCougar]

dola

Sorry about the tiny images - check out the article, it has a gallery.

[sterlingice]

I love this one, in particular.

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/space/03/05/starry.vangogh.reut/story.starrynight.cnn.jpg

SI

[JAG]

Thanks for the excellent pix Coug.

Can you hear me Major Tom?

[Fonzie]

I don't care about its scientific merit - we need to keep funding/repairing the Hubble just so it can provide us with these magnificent images.

Damn, that's amazing stuff.

[WSUCougar]

Not to get too esoteric, but do you ever consider the smallness of our existence, based on stuff like this? I mean relative to "space" and the countless galaxies and stars? It can be a little overwhelming when you think about it.

Hopefully we can discuss this without firing up another religious-based debate. :)

[illinifan999]

Just makes ya think about what's out there.

[JeeberD]

Yup. There's gotta be other intelligent life out there somewhere...

[AgPete]

I don't care about its scientific merit - we need to keep funding/repairing the Hubble just so it can provide us with these magnificent images.

Damn, that's amazing stuff.

I agree that funding needs to be kept and while I love the idea of a human landing on Mars I'm disappointed that Bush made it happen by cutting funding on other programs. In particular, I hope they've kept the Near-Earth Object Program fully funded. Nothing like being the first species on Earth that blows an opportunity to prevent extinction when it has chance to stop it.

One question though, isn't there a new telescope on Earth being finished that will be more powerful than the Hubble?

[sterlingice]

Not to get too esoteric, but do you ever consider the smallness of our existence, based on stuff like this? I mean relative to "space" and the countless galaxies and stars? It can be a little overwhelming when you think about it.

Hopefully we can discuss this without firing up another religious-based debate. :)
Well, to keep this from getting religious, I'll just affirm that you are puny and insignificant. ;)

SI

[ice4277]

I REALLY wish they would not cut funding on projects such as these just so a feel-good project like going to the moon can go forward. I agree with the idea of going to Mars but, I don't see the need to revisit the moon at this point.

[tucker342]

<TABLE cellPadding=2 width=280 align=left><TBODY><TR><TD>http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/images/pbd.jpg </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#444444>Earth (the dot in the middle) as seen from 3.7 billion miles away by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, on 6/6/1990. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.



The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html

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pretty mind blowing....

[tucker342]

dola-

A really great website for astronomy pictures is http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[AgPete]

<TABLE cellPadding=2 width=280 align=left><TBODY><TR><TD>http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/images/pbd.jpg </TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#444444>Earth (the dot in the middle) as seen from 3.7 billion miles away by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, on 6/6/1990. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.



The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html

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pretty mind blowing....

RIP Carl Sagan. :)

[Hurst2112]

Thats wild stuff. Thanks for the pics. I never saw the one from Voyager.

Makes me want to watch 2010 again.

"It's full of stars"

Rock on

[Hurst2112]

DOLA:

Makes you wonder why Super Villians in cartoons would just settle for taking over the earth. There is so much more out there to control. Just ask Mihng The Merciless (sp)

Flash Gordon...another great movie.

"Long live Flash, you saved our lives. Have a nice day."

"YEAH!!" (Jumps up with fist in the air)

[Buccaneer]

DOLA:

Makes you wonder why Super Villians in cartoons would just settle for taking over the earth. There is so much more out there to control. Just ask Mihng The Merciless (sp)

Flash Gordon...another great movie.

"Long live Flash, you saved our lives. Have a nice day."

"YEAH!!" (Jumps up with fist in the air)
cue Queen (I love this soundtrack, btw)

[AgPete]

Flash Gordon was the first movie I watched on a VCR. LOL I love that cheese fest of a movie with the Queen soundtrack. :D

[Hurst2112]

Possibly the best soundtrack for a film, by one band.

[Neuqua]

I used to have a fascination with Astronomy. I still read about it quite a bit. When you come to realize just how small and insignificant you are to the "whole" it can get one extremely frustrated, which is why I don't try to study it as much as I used to.

Great pics though.