The hubble hits just keep on coming!

Check out this latest image from Hubble: http://tinyurl.com/ykt547o  Just think, each little speck is a galaxy, with hundreds of billions of stars...mindblowing! You can actually see the oldest ones in the bigger picture. They're the red blobs, displaying that famous red-shifting, and - get this - we're seeing them as they were up to 13 billion years ago!  The image was created by combining several different images, taken in ultraviolet, visible light and near-infrared. (bigger image here:  http://tinyurl.com/ya3h3vp)

We are so small.......

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Hubble does it again

Orion nebula protoplanetary disks, future solar systems forming around new stars! As usual, Hubble delivers amazingly beautiful images.

More info here:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0917.html

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Hubble's deepest view of Universe unveils never-before-seen galaxies

Looking farther out in the universe to galaxies that were formed a mere 600-900 million years after the Big Bang, the oldest we've yet seen. These images were taken in the near-infrared wavelength by the new WFC3/infrared camera installed on Hubble by STS-125 astronauts Feustel and Grunsfeld on May 1th last. More information:

Hubble's deepest view of Universe unveils never-before-seen galaxies

Hubble Deep Field - not new, but still awesome

Imagine how much of the sky a tennis ball would blot out if it were positioned one hundred metres above your head. That's roughly the area photographed in the image below. It was taken over ten days in December 1995 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Each of those blurs, dots and smears are galaxies. Not stars. Galaxies. In that tiny patch of sky, which could be hidden behind a grain of salt held at arms length, you'd be hard put to count them all easily. The number of galaxies in the universe must be unfathomable.

And that's a humbling thought.