You know how much of the sky is represented by the image above of the Hubble Deep Field?
If you hold up a tennis ball 30 feet from your eye, how much of the sky is the tennis ball going to block? That's the size of the Hubble Deep Field. And it's a random patch of the sky. Just imagine how many galaxies and stars exist in total.
That's why I believe that the Hubble Deep Field is one of the most important photographs ever taken. It reveals how truly immense the visible universe is. And that doesn't even count the stuff we can't see any more.
You know how much of the sky is represented by the image above of the Hubble Deep Field?
If you hold up a tennis ball 30 feet from your eye, how much of the sky is the tennis ball going to block? That's the size of the Hubble Deep Field. And it's a random patch of the sky. Just imagine how many galaxies and stars exist in total.
That's why I believe that the Hubble Deep Field is one of the most important photographs ever taken. It reveals how truly immense the visible universe is. And that doesn't even count the stuff we can't see any more.
Amazing.
And with that amount of galaxies the chances of us being the only form of life is basically none.
Just realized I had a typo in my message. The Hubble Deep Field is the area of sky a tennis ball held THREE HUNDRED feet from your eye would cover. Not THIRTY feet. Makes it that much more awesome.
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