If you havent figured it out yet I am a huge nerd! Especially a astronomy nerd!
Well NASA just released a new hubble deep field photo called the eXteme Deep Field or XDF for short!
Here is the link to NASA's website with the article about it :
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hu...ience/xdf.html
This tiny patch of sky is about 1/50th the size of the face of the moon as seen in one of the pictures in the linked article!Hubble pointed at a tiny patch of southern sky in repeat visits (made over the past decade) for a total of 50 days, with a total exposure time of 2 million seconds. More than 2,000 images of the same field were taken with Hubble's two premier cameras: the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3, which extends Hubble's vision into near-infrared light.
Over 5,500 galaxies in a piece of sky thats 1/50th (ish) the size of the moon?! Imagine if they got a piece of sky 50 times larger then that! That would be approximately 275000 galaxies!The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.
Just in that photo alone imagine 5500 galaxies with millions of solar systems like ours with billions of planets just like our own!
Here is another website with an article on it and download links for High-Res images :
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...12/37/image/a/
I got the highest res image as my pc's background right now
It gets me all funny inside just thinking about it!
Oh space travel where art thou!
Atleast I have mah new telescope to use to see the wonders that lie out there.
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