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This is a picture taken by Hubble Ultra Deep Field telescope. No telescope has ever captured more cosmic beauty than the Hubble Space Telescope, this view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos.

Here is another picture.

The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.

In contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field. Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet. A few appear to be interacting. These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic. Order and structure were just beginning to emerge.

Bear in mind, that this picture was taken on a small patch of sky that appears empty!

The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.

This galactic snapshot is part of a collage of close-ups pulled from the Ultra Deep Field. View a larger version of this image, or the full collage.

This galaxy-studded view represents a “deep” core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors.

But astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are getting closer, with new images that reveal some of the farthest galaxies ever seen, from when the universe was just 400 million years old.

Light takes 400 million years to travel to earth, that means the image we see is about 400 million years ago! The image we see is from the past, so at the actual place over there, if we are there would be quite different(sorry, I don’t know how to explain).

I think these verses would go well with this post:(can’t help it)

How great the wonder of the heavens
And the timeless beauty of the night
How Great, then how Great, the Creator?

But like dreams vanish with the call to prayer
And the dawn extinguishes night
Here too, are signs
God is the Light!
God is the Light!

p.s : sorry, this sem I took CR, comparative religion and we’re just starting on Judaism
Photo credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith(STScI) and The HUDF Team.

A very nice view of rainbow in full circle. I personally never seen it before, we must be at higher grounds before we can see this. Not to mention at the right time. Well this guy is lucky.

“I was in Canberra on the weekend. So I decided to go up to the Telstra Tower as i’ve never been there. It was raining heavily and strong wind so we can’t go up to the open deck…..then this rainbow start to appear, small at first then grow into a full circle….and lasted for about 10min….then gone.”

There is a saying that at then end of a rainbow there is a pot of gold, waiting to be grabbed. Well, in this case, where can it be lol?
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Yaser told me that by visiting SyokTV, he can watched Astro channels for free! Online! Yups no charge at all. I don’t know whether this will change in the near future, but right now it’s free… why don’t you try?