RE: Revealing the Universe - check this out.
September 28, 2012 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2012 at 12:32 am by Jackalope.)
(September 28, 2012 at 12:14 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I wonder what the chances of sentient life like us humans evolving is out there.
There's an app for that.
(September 27, 2012 at 11:55 pm)Ryantology Wrote: And then, you follow up that realization with the fact that this image was taken by Hubble looking at just one tiny pinprick's width across the entire sky... that this is just one tiny fraction of a tiny percent of the whole thing.
Here's how you can visualize how small of a piece of sky the entire Extreme Deep Field image represents.
Take an ordinary marker pen. Make a dot on your thumbnail, perhaps 2mm in size. Hold your thumb out at arm's length.
The dot would just about cover the entire extreme deep field.