Hubble has given us a keyhole glimpse of the heart of the Milky Way. Most of our view of the galaxy is obscured by dust, but Hubble has peered into the Sagittarius Star Cloud, a narrow, dust-free region, providing this image of some of the oldest inhabitants of our galaxy
Posted by linzeebinzee on May 30, 2009 at 12:21 am
The Hubble Deep Field pictures will never cease to amaze me.
Posted by arif on May 30, 2009 at 10:32 am
Yay, me too, I have a collection here at Clipmarks: http://clipmarks.com/clipper/arifsali/search/hubble/
Posted by Easy Nash on June 2, 2009 at 10:08 pm
The Hubble Deep Field represents a mind-boggling fact: Each of the dots you see in the above picture represents one galaxy of anywhere from 100 million to 1 trillion stars, many bigger than our Sun. And there are as many as 800 billion to 1 trillion such galaxies in the Universe. As a theist in the Islamic tradition I know of only one phrase to describe this incomprehensible magnitude of stars and galaxies: “Allahu Akbar”(God is Great).
Posted by arif on June 2, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Very well said, poetic simile!
Posted by Easy Nash on June 3, 2009 at 10:20 am
I opined on the amazing nature of the Hubble Deep Field in 3 of my earliest posts in 2006 from my old Blog:
http://easynash.blogspot.com/2006/12/amazing-hubble-telescope.html
http://easynash.blogspot.com/2006/12/important-piece-of-information-about.html
http://easynash.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-golden-age-of-astronomy.html