Hubble Deep Field

If you press the thumb and forefinger of each hand together, and then press your two thumbs and your two forefingers together to make a little square, and then put the little window to one eye and look up, what you will actually be seeing, looking out into space-time, is this:

This is what the Hubble Space Telescope saw when it focused on one unremarkable part of the night sky for eleven days straight.  Excuse me, may I blow your mind? Each dot in the image is a galaxy.  Not a star.  A galaxy.

If you slow down and be still and just observe, this is what can happen.


Links:

About the Hubble Space Telescope

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope page

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