Saturday, August 15, 2009

"My God...... it's full of stars!"

Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope to a region of space the size of a speck of dust that is 'seemingly empty' and kept the telescope watching for 10 days. They could’ve very well ended up with a blank image - but they saw something mind boggling.

Here’s a wonderful clip about the Hubble Ultra Deep Field that illustrates just how small we are in the grand scheme of the universe.

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