Not too long ago I was playing around with the Google Sky Map app on my phone (a valid reason to get a smart phone in itself), looking at where the stars would be if I didn't live in light pollution land. I noticed a little spot called "Hubble Ultra Deep Field." I had heard about this. It's a spot in space where scientists had aimed the big telescope and looked farther in space and time then anyone had ever looked before. It got me thinking, and it got me looking around, and eventually I bumped into this video:
This is a couple of years old, so you've probably seen it already. It's just that it is a little tiny bit mind blowing and at the moment it is as close as we're going to come to Douglas Adams's Total Perspective Vortex. So, if you haven't seen it already, and you'd like a glimpse of just how tiny we are compared to the vastness of the cosmos, give it a click.
1 comment:
I have google skymap on my phone and use it all the time in conjunction with my crummy telescope. That video is AMAZING. I can't get my mind around the amazing distances involved. Thanks for posting this!
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