Yesterday I looked down and I saw modesty on the ground.
Today I looked up and I saw majesty in the sky.
Where will you look today?
What will you see?
Showing posts with label Universe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Universe. Show all posts
Friday, May 9, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Seeing the stars with new eyes
Five days ago some of the most beautiful views of the universe and the deepest-ever pictures of a cluster of galaxies were released.
There are so many facts that make these images - and story - absolutely fascinating:
- It's the first "Frontier Fields" view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which means that more are going to follow over the next 3 years.
- They mark the deepest ever observations of a cluster of galaxies: the photos centered on Abel 2744 - nicknamed Pandora's Cluster - found 3.5 billion light-years away from Earth.
- Abel 2744 contains several hundred galaxies as they looked 3.5 billion years ago. It is a massive cluster: 400 trillion times the mass of our own Sun, a thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
- The images also capture nearly 3,000 background galaxies as they looked over 12 billion years ago, not long after the Big Bang.
I spend hours reading and trying to absorb the information, amazed by the vastness and grandeur of a universe with countless trillions of stars which gives a much needed perspective and a sense of humbleness.
There are so many facts that make these images - and story - absolutely fascinating:
- It's the first "Frontier Fields" view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which means that more are going to follow over the next 3 years.
- They mark the deepest ever observations of a cluster of galaxies: the photos centered on Abel 2744 - nicknamed Pandora's Cluster - found 3.5 billion light-years away from Earth.
- Abel 2744 contains several hundred galaxies as they looked 3.5 billion years ago. It is a massive cluster: 400 trillion times the mass of our own Sun, a thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
- The images also capture nearly 3,000 background galaxies as they looked over 12 billion years ago, not long after the Big Bang.
I spend hours reading and trying to absorb the information, amazed by the vastness and grandeur of a universe with countless trillions of stars which gives a much needed perspective and a sense of humbleness.
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