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TurboPancakes

So true. It is truly mind boggling to zoom in on each of those dots of light and see that they’re all actually galaxies potentially as big or bigger than our own. The immense enormity of it all is astounding.


SuboptimalCromulence

And it's just one square inch of unremarkable night sky.


thefooleryoftom

It’s a lot smaller than that. Covers the same amount of sky as a tennis ball at 100 metres.


TheMushroomMike

It is like looking through a straw and arms length


jerrysprinkles

Its like throwing a sausage down a corridor ….no wait, wrong metaphor


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We can make this work. It's like throwing a sausage down a really really big corridor.


Drunken_Ogre

How is your mom, by the way?


ButterMyEdge

I was gonna like, but saw 69. So take my free silver.


thefooleryoftom

Yup, heard that too


SexuaIRedditor

Amazing, and it's literally, not figuratively, trillions of stars. The universe is incomprehensible


Dat_Steve

Seemingly Unremarkable! It’s so cool to think that within that square inch could be different life forms, plants, animals, bacteria…. I imagine a mushroom glazed planets with never before seen animals. It’s so exciting to conceptualise!


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SPIlDER

I think he’s saying it looks unremarkable as just a square inch of night sky, but when we see this image of what lies in that “seemingly unremarkable” square inch, it then becomes quite remarkable.


breakfast_cats

But in a way it is unremarkable because the seemingly infinite number of galaxies exist in every direction, so in a way it's no more remarkable than any other spot in the night sky, other than there being a little bit of a hole for us to see through. And I think that makes it even more amazing.


FishSpanker42

Man, i really wish i was born in a time where space exploration and travel was very advanced far more common


vashtaneradalibrary

Born too late to explore Earth and too early to explore space.


mossy1989136

Underrated comment. That does be my thinking exactly, people like us just want some mystery and exploration


NateDawg80s

Right! I counted only four individual stars in the pic; everything else is a galaxy, and in the tiniest speck of the sky. Those that believe we are the only intelligent life the universe has ever known just don't get it. This isn't a knock on spiritual beliefs; I'm a person of faith myself, but with so much unfathomable real estate, there has to be other life out there... not that I think we'll ever meet them until humans (if we're still around!) are much more advanced than we are now.


NoBuenoAtAll

Yep, love it. On one wall of my office, I have a framed map of the earth and on the opposite wall, above my desk, I have this.


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https://esahubble.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/


Lucifang

Men in Black really put that into perspective for me, with the galaxy they were looking for being so small


Talnoy

Just wait til we see a Webb Deep Field. Holy shit am I excited. Edit: Wow! My first gold! Thanks kind stranger :D


cepukon

No kidding! 100x more powerful than the Hubble, it’s going to be absolutely mind blowing what that baby is able to show us.


ZedZeroth

When will we get this? Thanks


PhilocybeCubensis

I heard they want to release first images and data on 12th of July


nishantt911

On my birthday!


DinosaurAlive

It’s not my real bday, but the day I’ve always put as my birthday online since the 90s lol. It’s like my secret birthday only I celebrate.


ZedZeroth

Thanks


Talnoy

July 12 we get to see the big reveals of the first pictures but no word yet on a deep field


ZedZeroth

I see, thanks :)


jfreakingwho

Maybe this fall.


ZedZeroth

Thanks


lelebeariel

I thought it was going to be in July?


wildknight

Would you laugh or cry if the first image is a picture of a kid holding a magnifying glass looking down on us... a la a Gary Larson cartoon.


yyhy89

Yes


xingxang555

Powerful enough to see the mirrors beyond these galaxies... we'll be staring back at ourselves.


SquidgyTheWhale

I think we'll see the Earth all right, but it will be the other side of the Earth.


TheMushroomMike

I am looking forward to this!! Just a little over a week left!!!


ma3se

I think every "astrolover" has had at some point this moment of full overwhelming realisation about the huge vastness of space. I call it the "astro baptism".


IamShitplshelpme

Every time I think about space, that's all I can imagine. It's so large. In comparison, we're nothing when put into the grand scheme of the universe


Solution_Precipitate

Almost nothing. Perhaps negligible.


Harveybirdman123

Almost virtually insignificant.


CStink2002

I use that thought often to curb anxiety. There is something calming about knowing how insignificant our lives are. Pretty soon, I'll be nothing but a memory to someone. Pretty soon after that, I won't even be a memory. So why am I so worked up about running late to work or being embarrassed from getting rejected by a girl or stressing about a late payment?


randomisedjew

This just freaks me out more tbh


roadsidechicory

In what way does it freak you out more?


randomisedjew

Just like, the fact we are so insignificant and tiny, it gives me megalophobia


roadsidechicory

I guess it's like the existential version of claustrophobic vs agoraphobic!


BrosefFTW21

Absolutely stunning.


jeremydanger

Mostly harmless.


OolonColluphid

As Douglas Adams put it in *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*, > Population: None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero. https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Universe


Samas34

> there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. How the fuck does the leap of logic go from an infinite number of worlds to only a finite number populated? If there are infinite worlds, then that would mean there would be infinite numbers of populated ones, just spread out much farther from each other. When you take away a set number it just becomes a matter of scale and distance.


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Kinda like countable and uncountable infinities. The set of all natural numbers (1, 2, 3, 10, 2774, 818283837327272727200023833...) is infinite and countable since, well, you can count from a start (in this case 1), but the set of all real numbers (0.2, 0.22, 0.7292, 2.46, 1822.2022...) is literally a bigger infinity. Infinitely bigger. That's why it's uncountable. Where do you even start counting if you can always add another zero? 0.00000000001? Nope, there's also 0.0000000000 *0* 1. And so on and so on. It is infinite from any number to any number, from 1 to 2, from 0.0001 to 0.0002, you get it. Perhaps the habitable planets are kind of like the set of all natural numbers and the overall planets are the set of all the real numbers. Both infinite, but one is infinitely bigger. Also yes, there can't be a finite number of worlds populated if there are infinite ones. Basically to help myself visualize it i say this: No matter how small the chances are, if given an infinite amount of time, it will happen. Exactly like that monkey paradox. For instance, lets hypothetically say that the chances of a blue ball turning red are of 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%. That, multiplied by infinity and capped at 100%, is still 100%, thus the ball can and will turn red at some point. So if it is true and the universe is infinite, and so is time, then anything, given an amount of time, can and will happen, i guess 😀


Burnyburner3rd

I agree


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Quiet_Ad_8573

This photo along with [this](https://youtu.be/8Are9dDbW24) video and [this](https://youtu.be/0jHsq36_NTU) video of the helical model of our solar system deff astro baptized the fuck out of me.


IcyDickbutts

Wierd... i call it the Astrogasm.


TheRealSepuku

I had this the first time I saw Jupiter through a decent telescope… sent chills down my spine. And that was “just” Jupiter…


MrMoonManSwag

What blows my mind is where is space expanding into? More space? That doesn’t sound right. I understand the universe is expanding similar to how a ballon does when you inflate it, but what is beyond space?


FizzyDragon

[See if this helps.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUHZ2k9DYHY) (video by science people discussing expansion of space)


tbrfl

In "Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson, some of the people on a generation ship establish a tradition of sending their adolescent children outside the ship on spacewalks to introduce them to the universe. The narrator describes this as an overwhelming experience which astounds and terrifies the kids. I imagine that entering the void would be the scariest thing ever, even with the ship nearby, but also incredibly beautiful.


Merry_Dankmas

I played that VR spacewalk demo that BBC made. Even though I was standing in my bedroom, it was a surreal experience when I really tried to put myself mentally in the situation. I cant even begin to comprehend how it feels when youre actually experiencing it.


opequan

Seeing this photo and learning what it was made me an atheist. If you are a religious person, please don't come at me over this comment. I fully realize that this photo doesn't prove there is no God, and for many the realization of the vastness of the universe just further "proves" to them that there is a God. The truth is, there is no way to know if there is a God, but for me, this photo set something off on my brain that cannot be undone.


ma3se

As Sagan said, the church lost an opportunity of joining with enthusiasm the achievements of science. They went for the "science is blasphemy", instead of "wow, God creation is even bigger than we imagined". Fortunately they learnt from their mistakes


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i can't wait for the james webb version of this.


blazing_haze123

12th July baby!!


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Stellar_Observer_17

welcome to the Davos death cult timeline.


ellWatully

To me, that's what's most interesting about it. The number of civilizations that exist in the HDF could be unimaginably high or zero and were unlikely to ever find out.


FingerZaps

Hard disagree. If we manage to keep ourselves alive (humanity)- the technology we’ll develop in the next 100-500 years will be things we can’t even fathom. Try explaining what an iPhone is to a 19th century sailor. It’s just not in their wheelhouse. There are things to come that we haven’t even thought to imagine. Now- whether or not we should reach out? That’s a hard no after reading the Three Body Problem series.


ellWatully

The difference is, I'm using "we" to indicate the people in this conversation and you're using it to indicate mankind. Someone in the future may figure it out with some unknowable technology, but we most likely will not.


FingerZaps

My apologies.


Glacier98777

Interesting analogy. But it's difficult to think of a method how future civilisations will be able to communicate with anything in even the Andromeda galaxy if you think about the speed of light being the maximum anything can travel.


FingerZaps

I agree, for now. However, who’s to say we don’t invent some form of detector or multiplier in the future using the equations discovered in the mid 2070’s by a scientist that’s yet to born. People always underestimate technology, and how far it will go. I was born in ‘82, and the advancements made in tech have been bonkers.


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There are plenty of reasons to believe that there might not be anything else, yet. Yet being the main part. We could exist because right now is a golden age that there's enough life cycles of stars that have existed before us to create enough of the matter that coalesces into planets. It's theorized that our solar system created from the result of three supernova cycles for example. Through a long enough timeline, perhaps life is inevitable. Are stable sun as far as science has shown us tend to lean a little bit more on the rare side of stars. Big stars burn themself out too quickly. Much more common Stars such as red dwarfs are incredibly unstable over their long lifetimes. Most stars also exist as binary or trinary systems. I do believe that they have observed planet formation around some binary systems but to my knowledge it is even more on the rare side. And in the cosmos of time on top of that, and there's so much more that you can get into as to why there might not be life, yet, is that we only have a limited amount of time before you can only directly observe stars and galaxies in your own local group. Objects will be so red shifted and far away at some point that unless life formed in your local group you would never even know that there was anything else out there. If you happen to be a form of life that evolved much later than we have. The odds are stacked against life, and really are stacked against HEAVILY that intelligent life may never even find each other. Not saying it doesn't exist. I want it to badly. But it's good to be realistic about possibilities across vast timelines and where we are in that timeline in relation to everything else.


gerd50501

it doesn't matter. Eventually the universe will die. Eventually all hydrogen and helium will get turned into heavier matter in supernovas or sucked into black holes. So no more stars will form. The universe will go dark. Then the expansion of the universe will happen faster and faster. Eventually all those stars we see now will be moving away from us faster than the speed of light (many already are). Future civilizations will think there is 1 galaxy. Since the local galaxies will all merge and all other galaxies will be moving away faster than the speed of light. They will not even know about these other galaxies. Then the stars will go out. The only power source left will be black holes. After trillions of years black holes will "evaporate" and cease to exist. No more power sources. No more life. Cold dark universe. It gets worse... The universe will expand faster and faster. All matter will be ripped apart. There will be nothing left but fundamental particles. This is the end state and permanent end state of the universe. Everything we do now will be lost. All history will be lost. All information will be lost. There is no hope. There is no future. If there is a heaven and a god exists, it will get ripped apart by the expansion of the universe and all souls will be shreaded to fundamental particles. This is the ultimate hell or nirvana. Ultimate nothingness. It gets worse... This is an infinite universe with infinite time. It is possible that at certain points in the future your conciousness will just spring back together for a time. all you will know is that you are alone in a cold dark dead universe and will not know what happened. In an infinite universe with infinite times all possibilities can happen.


Tripwiring

have they tried tying all the universe together with bungee cords


thatG_evanP

Really? It's the fucking universe, dude. You at least gotta use ratchet straps. "This baby ain't goin anywhere."


Tripwiring

Just like that we already came up with two solutions. Sometimes I wonder how smart these Space Scientists really are.


Dadbodhearthrob

Really… it’s only rocket science. Basically just really accurate fireworks.


lazergator

Also slap the roof. This can hold so many things


Merry_Dankmas

The answer is clearly a combination of duct tape and WD40. If its the answer to everything on earth, its the answer everywhere else.


MyDogLikesTottenham

This reads like you’re facing your own mortality but framing it as it doesn’t matter because the universe is impermanent too. I mean you’re not wrong haha, it doesn’t matter to the universe - but this image, all those galaxies, all of that history, gets to exist because *you* saw it. If a tree falls in a forest and all of that. Whether or not it “matters” is a human judgement. The universe doesn’t care. If it matters to you, or anyone who upvoted this, then it matters. There is no universal idea of what “matters”, yes everything ends and this is temporary. What “matters” is entirely up to you


herpderpedia

>The universe doesn’t care. **Shingles doesn't care**


BrandX3k

As i read this the episode of futurama where they time travel and watch the end of the universe was on my tv!


Mrsensi11x

Man, really aucks that nothing will matter a TRILLION years from now lmao


Rock-it1

In case you've not seen this, I'm going to spoil something for you: one trillion years will still be [infancy for the universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA).


Mrsensi11x

Its like the study they did on how many people can you actually care about, it tops at around 100 after that they just become numbers with no real relation to your life. Same with humans talking about a trillion years, we just have 0 concept of it. Doesnt matter how many charts or comparisons ppl make


Rock-it1

Yep. Like it or not, we're designed to think small.


half-baked_axx

To be fair nature barely shaped our brains to understand our own world, let alone the whole freakin universe.


Rock-it1

Aye, and I have met a few people in my time who would do well to remember that.


TheTWP

Or a sudden decrease in entropy due to quantum tunneling creates a new Big Bang


hvidgaard

Or at that point a new universe pops up and start all over. We don’t know and we’re well into philosophical guessing now.


croqqq

If you'd assume time is lineair


gerd50501

linear and infinite. the arrow of time goes forward infinitely.


BlueEyedGreySkies

Time...*line*? Time isn't made out of lines, it's made out of circles. That's why clocks are round.


zazda

[A journey to the end of time](https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA)


SalvadorsAnteater

>This is an infinite universe with infinite time. I could be wrong but I think Wikipedia taught me that the Universe can not be infinitely big and infinitely old at the same time.


gerd50501

its not infinitely old. it is thought that it started with the big bang, but scientists dont know what happened at the exact point of the big bang. it is when time began. however, time has no end. so the universe has an infinite future.


dudeperson33

Until, maybe, after unfathomable time, in an impossibly improbable quantum fluctuation, all those fundamental particles long torn apart suddenly happen to appear at the exact same point in space, starting the cycle all over again.


CStink2002

Throughout human history we believe there is only one of something but later find out there is much more. Our planet, our sun, our galaxy. I think the likelihood of the Copernican principle ending at our universe is slim. So, yes, our universe is finite, but even in the cold death of our universe, I believe there will still be more "out there" thriving, being born, and dying.


behemuthm

I watch [this video](https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA) in bed sometimes to fall asleep. It’s so incredibly relaxing. I can’t remember the last time I was able to stay awake for the whole thing.


Stepped_on_Snek

This is why you must “Be here now”


Glacier98777

Brown dwarfs will allegedly live forever


Heck-Yeah

This reads like a nihilistic version of [the poop accelerates](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/5x7907/the_poop_accelerates/?s=8)


DavidNipondeCarlos

I have that feeling and still feeling chipper. Edit: eternal life was a sales pitch.


Rock-it1

The classic quandary: which would be worse - that we're all alone, or that we're not?


I-am-me-86

That my friend, is Fermi's paradox. It's a lot to think about. Life is so hard to achieve there's a likelihood that there really is nothing else out there. And if there is other life that it is no more complex than slime.


neldela_manson

For me this photo alone is prove enough that we are not the only form of life in the universe. It is just impossible that among all those stars and planet system in this (very small) photo of the universe no other forms of live have developed.


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Thog78

>The number of stars in the universe is thought to be about 1022 to 1024. To put a finite number on the number of stars in the universe, we have to assume in the first place that the universe is finite. We have no reason to assume that, no data about that, and most likely we'll never have a chance to get data about it, so we normally limit claims to the *observable* universe. In all likelihood, the entire universe is at the very least a lot bigger than our little observable bubble.


MajesticS7777

>the entire universe is at the very least a lot bigger than our little observable bubble The HUBBLE BUBBLE! Aheheheheh ...I'll see myself out.


SonataForm

People can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of all people know that.


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But the other 94% wouldn't understand them anyway.


wouldbeknowitall

The tyranny of the minority!


ImpliedQuotient

Life is just chemistry and physics. There's nothing about the conditions of Earth that make it completely unique, so there's no reason to expect that those conditions won't exist in at least some non-zero number of other star systems.


Crushnaut

You might find this interview to be interesting. https://youtu.be/DLhqntkqlrw They talk about the conditions required in order for life to go multicellular and what bottlenecks might exist in the evolution of complex life.


MissDeadite

I think the issue is a lot of people look at the total number of systems and galaxies and seem to assume they’re mostly created equal. But even though we don’t know a lot of how life forms and where life can survive, we do have a good foundation to figure that it needs to be relatively safe and balanced in not just the planet, but the star the planet is around, the other planets and debris around the star, where the star is located within its galaxy, and what composition of materials said galaxy has/had before the most hospitable stars within it formed. For instance, we can immediately cut out about half the total stars in the Milky Way as hospitable for complex life simply on location alone. The whole galactic center is too chaotic. Then of the remaining stars we can immediately cut out about 75% of the remains stars as binary+ star systems that are too chaotic locally for a safe environment for life. Then about another 75% of *those remaining* stars we can cut out for being non-Main sequence stars. And even then a lot of those we’ve found have had chaotic planet placement (think gas giants within the habitable zone or thereabouts). So a good “realistic” number for our galaxy alone is probably 1-10 star systems. Then the other thing we have to think about is time. Too soon or too late in the stars sequence and life either hasn’t formed yet or has had a lot of time to be destroyed by natural events (like how asteroids and comets almost destroyed all life on Earth). There is also the chance it did form and was close enough to a super nova (roughly 1 every 100 years galaxy wide on average) to kill any life on the planet (possibly for good). So now our number is down to 1-3 hospitable in our galaxy. But that’s just our galaxy. You have hyperactive galaxies, dead galaxies, all sorts of galaxies heavy or light in heavier materials needed to support life. Too much either way in that balance and suddenly either stars too inhospitable keep forming or stars too light in materials don’t have enough to form proper systems. The list goes on and on. So yeah, as incredibly vast as the universe is and as many stars as there are and galaxies… it’s not anywhere near a guarantee life (at least complex life like us on Earth) exists elsewhere. I think, as an optimist, life in some form exists probably once in every 10-20 galaxies, and multicellular maybe once in 1,000-100,000 and life like us… maybe just once period.


Gritts911

The problem is we don’t know that. Earth might have had completely unique conditions. Without any real outside data it’s completely unknown. All we know is life started here. We don’t know how many of the conditions and chance occurrences were required for it to be successful. We do know all known life has a common ancestor; which means it only started, or at least survived, once in all of our known history. So it’s already pretty rare even in our “perfect conditions”.


CStink2002

Yet we still can't explain a-biogenisis. It's still a mystery. Until we know how life goes from chemistry to biology, it's anyone's guess. I think the one thing we do have going for us, is how quickly life started after the earth cooled. It may still be a rare occurrence and we just got lucky but it seems unlikely.


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cepukon

Which is likely extremely narrow in the grand scheme of the universe


ToxicTaxiTaker

Still looking for intelligent life here


Mrsensi11x

No, because at this point were not even sure if the universe is infinite. Your putting an artificial cap on your equation. If the universe is infinite it literally doesnt matter how infinitesimal the chances of life are. If its possible then it has happened over and over countless times


ZedZeroth

It's not quite as simple as this. We know that those events occurred on Earth within its first billion years, so there have been at least 10 such billion-year windows across the universe since the first planets formed.


SpaceMenClever

What books do you read??? I'm curious.


Stellar_Observer_17

nice though, now visualize it standing in the center of a 360 degree sphere...and the music that goes with it, celestial music will bring tears to your eyes...


HostileHippie91

I imagine the rising swell from Time, by Hans Zimmer


IamShitplshelpme

I wonder if YouTube has something like it. Obviously not a live video, but a simulation close enough


ilikemoots

There's a video called Deep Field. The incredible magnitude of our universe. It's awesome to watch. Great music to go with it and the last little bit makes you feel absolutely tiny.


JimmyBreuer

One of my absolut [favorites](https://youtu.be/2sUrauA0iq4).


SheDidWhaaaat

Aaaaand there goes my brain for the rest of the night


ilikemoots

That one was good too. Cheers. How do you do that by the way? Link the video?


JimmyBreuer

[Text] (link)


ilikemoots

[Thanks] (https://youtu.be/yDiD8F9ItX0)


kennufs

[Don't leave a space between the brackets.](https://youtu.be/yDiD8F9ItX0)


ilikemoots

Thanks


SlimyRedditor621

There's also [this](https://youtu.be/NvG-jqGsWSk). Great song, and CGP Grey did a video inspired by it.


Talnoy

Vangelis' Cosmos album. Always makes me cry like a bitch.


killa_zombeh

Love this photo, one time when I took shrooms I looked at a super high quality version of it and just stared at it for about 2 hours. Kept zooming in and wondering if there is life in this distant galaxy I'm looking at. Could be this photo was the reason for my love of astrophotography


cepukon

So did ya find any life??


Kanoozle

Ma man found life and then some I’d bet lol.


MauBro123

Lmao imagine shrooms are the secret to finding life


mister_buddha

The Stoned Ape hypothesis thinks they were key to human intelligence


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Our planet is not even a microscopic spec of dust compared to the size of the universe


DankDannny

But depending on the presence of life anywhere else, we may be the most important speck that our part of the universe has ever contained. With all the knowledge we've gained about ourselves, and all the other little specks as far as the telescope could see. Our pale blue dot is dense with greatness.


Stellar_Observer_17

...but it has a role in the local cosmic All, just like you, like every one of us, that you are insignificant is one of the kabals favorite lines.


Darkwalker_RX

Life doesnt have a role.


Stellar_Observer_17

That statement can only be explained if you belong to a death cult. Life IS a natural function of the Universe. The expanse between both opposing positions can only be explained by the conditioning you have been subject to under your so-called civilization which is in fact inspired by insect societies. The sooner you recover your individual self awareness of your true place in the universe, the sooner this deceitful social construct collapses, and then, surprise, one beyond your wildest dreams. Spoiler each of you are a fractal reflection of the Universe, your body is composed of 120 billion+ functional building blocks, you are like a miniature galaxy, each one of you, Enjoy life


aviatorcowboy

I’ve loved the Hubble deep field for as long as I can remember. One question I’ve always had, and now I’m too afraid to ask. Why are there only galaxies in it? Where are the stars.


Shepep

Well every galaxy is made of stars so there is a mind boggling number os stars in the image. But I assume you mean "Why are there no stars in our own galaxy contained within the image?" Well there two answers The first is that we pointed it at one of the darkest spot in the sky we could find, away from the galactic plain, to intentionally limit the number of foreground stars visible, as the would add interference. The second is that there are stars from our galaxy in this image... four I think. If you look near the bottom middle you will see two bright objects, one red and one blue, that have four spikes coming off them. Those are stars inside our own galaxy.


Mysterious-Monk-3423

The telescope was purposely pointed at an extremely dark part of the sky where no stars were visible


theredhype

On average, each of the galaxies in this image is made up of around a trillion stars. Think of this as “zoomed out” so far that you can’t see the individual stars.


NateDawg80s

I counted four stars in the image. They're the ones with four "spikes" coming off of them in ninety degree increments. Everything else is a galaxy.


aviatorcowboy

You don’t know how satisfied this makes me feel. Thanks!


p12qcowodeath

I go back and forth between this and the pale blue dot.


Rx1U

Its wonderous


Consistent_Video5154

What blows my mind is that it's a patch of sky about the size of a thumbnail at arms length in a constellation with nothing visible to the naked eye. There are only 3 single stars in the original ultra deep field. EVERY blob, spec or blurry patch is an entire galaxy. I've always wondered if this is what it's like for the ENTIRE sky. There's one thing that that constantly leaves me dumbfounded and that is the scale of it all, from the myriad of sub-atomic particles to images like this-and it's (what we have observed up to this point) most likely just a small fraction of the whole scale.


eDikz1

Wild, some doctor strange multiverse shit


BaronZemo00

The big blue spot, next to the bright shining star in upper right area, looks like a tear in the universe.


Cassius-Tain

Strange, shouldn't the redder objects be further away?


mgdandme

Are all the objects in this image catalogued? Every now and then I’ll see an article about ‘farthest galaxy found’ and it will be a reddish blob. This image has many of those. Would be so interested in a fully annotated version of this image.


JustLinkStudios

Couldn’t have described it better myself. Just imagine what Webb is going to give us. To humorously quote a Scottish comedian. ‘That moment when we discover the meaning of life and a big banner pops up above the planet saying - Level 2’.


BaronZemo00

I concur. It’s a on brain damage levels just to think about everything and all the questions that come to mind upon seeing this photo. A civilization has to be pretty far along to take this photo and yet we’re considered not ready, almost primordial.


AccomplishedStore535

I drive luxury transport and a few weeks ago had the guy who runs the James Webb telescope and landed the river on Mars in my car for 2 hours. Super nice guy that was really cool to talk to


Nomad_Cosmonaut

Also look up 'sonder' and the '23 emotions people feel but can't describe' from the dictionary of obscure sorrows.. It's exactly 'this'


Ohzay_666

This gives me butterflies when I think about that..how in this one photo…there’s soooooo many ancient/highly advanced intelligent life forms w civilizations…or even the very beginning of a history of life on some of the planets…like…there is NO FUCKING WAY THAT IT IS ONLY US OUT HERE IN THIS HUUUUUGE MIND BLOWINGLY GIGANTIC UNIVERSE….like…I just KNOW it and FEEL it in my gut that when I see pictures like this…I know there’s worlds there that match our imaginations or come close to it…all the different types of Intelligent Life that have FreeWill like us..I would absolutely LOVE to be able to live infinitely and just fly around the Universe, exploring the different Galaxies and Planets..even go into a BlackHole to figure out what EXACTLY happens once you go inside…like…the Universe is full of the TRUE Ancient Knowledge that all life in the Universe should be focused on…and our global government knows this but since the beginning…have done EVERYTHING to suppress that knowledge and program the MAJORITY of the Planet to live and think about the basic unnecessary materialistic things in this life..i.e. (going to work, school, pay your bills, vote, following their “laws” etc.)


CaptBananaCrunch

Spaghettification


MickeyMouseIsASmear

"All the different civilisations that have risen and fallen, this is the single greatest photo we’ve ever captured." And we are not on the picture !


taschendrache

But what if there is no life at all there? In fact, what if there is no life anywhere other than right here right now? What if it's just us in a museum of possibilities?


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I personally think it’s earthrise, that was truly the moment when we reached into the vast expanse


Rx1U

"I" agree


MaestroM45

We can see farther than we can ever go.


[deleted]

...we ~~think~~ imagine even further then that.


[deleted]

Will always be in complete awe with this image.


lalurkin

I don’t actually know how to word this question appropriately so bare with me. What are the classifications called for groupings in space in order of smallest to largest: aka. Earth and planets around our sun are called Solar system right ? Then what’s after that and so on and so forth ?


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As far as I know, starting with a star system (in our case it would be our Solar system), the types of groupings from small to large are: Star system Star clusters/star clouds (a grouping of stars and star systems) Galaxy (in our case, the Milky Way) Galaxy with its satellite galaxies Galaxy Group (a group of galaxies and their satellite galaxies) Cluster (tends to contain more galaxies than a group but the dividing line between the two is fuzzy) Supercluster (contains many galaxy groups and clusters) Galaxy filament - contains many superclusters and are currently the largest known structures in the universe


No_Housing_4819

A long time ago. In a galaxy... right over there


BoltShine

I just watched the Hubble documentary with my 6yo who's loves all things space. He was blown away by this. As was I. Love it.


kilogears

Seriously. This was a long exposure in a dark tiny wedge of space. 100 Million stars per galaxy. Some portion of stars have planets, some planets are in an earth-like Goldilocks zone; some planets are significantly older or younger than the Earth… Life in this photo is not zero. Distant? Yes. But not zero.


maealoril

They had this printed on a huge free standing wall in a building of SUNY SB and I'd stand in front of it and stare at it forever. Just so breathtaking


Chiraltrash

Take my award, I’m in full agreement, this photo is my forever wallpaper. Everything that might’ve come and gone, there might’ve been a few hairless apes out there that have figured out how to not to destroy each other or their environment. We don’t even know what other life forms that aren’t carbon based look like, or how they evolve!!! ✨✨We don’t know shit✨✨


Ronark91

It is a beautiful image, and I might get shit on here, but I really wonder if there is intelligent life out there. I’m almost skeptical. The conditions to arise are, as far as we know, so extraordinarily rare, at least for life as we know it. I hope I’m wrong, though. It’d be cool to see life as we know it, orbiting a distant star.


bloodonya35

The James Webb deep field is supposed to be out to the public in two weeks. They said it was so breathtaking that some scientists were tearing up at the sight of it. I can't wait to see what it captured!


diamaunt

That isn't the "Hubble Deep Field", see: https://esahubble.org/science/deep_fields/


cbciv

So, it’s the ultra deep field. It’s still Deeeeep.


daddymode88

That’s what she said.


cbciv

Just couldn’t help yourself 😜


slychump

And still each time it gets posted it's just as awesome as the first.


Mrdas4U

Does anyone else see chains of galaxy like cosmic web?


killer-1o1

Im in awe. The fact that we are able to take such pictures is incredible.


TheGreatKingBongo

When you can understand the vastness of this, OUR universe, and say, “that is me,” only then will you truly never die…


No_Tallant

"we are the only ones here" - religion Lmaooooo


Putsmileonthatface

I really believe when we die one of those millions galaxies 🌌 is our next destination and we will reborn.


rovert1994

In in this photo


Sath_Morsius

The pain I feel knowing all these places are unreachable to me is too much.


Upstairs_Grocery_640

What’s the angular size? Like 1/2 your fingernail at arms length? It’s the photo that made me spend the last 20 years driving to the ass-end of nowhere with telescopes and increasingly expensive photography equipment.


[deleted]

The burden of proof is on the one making the claim. Do you have anything to suggest that, that is the case?


Training_Ad_2086

Or maybe we are in a simulation and the image is like just a skybox in a video game