Hubble Telescope Deep Imaging
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Blackbodies, Blackholes, yeah, lots of strange ideas there.
You know what really impressed me the most though.
2 things.
1. The images that hubble has taken of spots of the night sky and a lower magnification. You know, it's the normal sky you look at every night. But they are just slightly magnified, and you see that about 90% of the "stars" you are looking at at night, are actually GALAXIES out there. Holy shit. You can see this exact set of pictures at about 2.49 on the video in the first post.
Blows my friggin mind.
2. Spectroscopy. The entire science of analyzing the chemical makeup of a disant star or other object splitting the light up and matching the absorbsion and emission spectra to known elements. That one boggles the brain too. And we've been doing that for a LONG time now.
To REALLY get you going, check out some stuff on the "Drake Equation".
This is the equation developed to loosly model the number of Intelligent (Communicating) civilizations, in a galaxy.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topic...e_equation.html
The answer in this equation, for our rather small Milky Way Galaxy, is 1000.
That's just ONE galaxy, out of millions.
You know what really impressed me the most though.
2 things.
1. The images that hubble has taken of spots of the night sky and a lower magnification. You know, it's the normal sky you look at every night. But they are just slightly magnified, and you see that about 90% of the "stars" you are looking at at night, are actually GALAXIES out there. Holy shit. You can see this exact set of pictures at about 2.49 on the video in the first post.
Blows my friggin mind.
2. Spectroscopy. The entire science of analyzing the chemical makeup of a disant star or other object splitting the light up and matching the absorbsion and emission spectra to known elements. That one boggles the brain too. And we've been doing that for a LONG time now.
To REALLY get you going, check out some stuff on the "Drake Equation".
This is the equation developed to loosly model the number of Intelligent (Communicating) civilizations, in a galaxy.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topic...e_equation.html
The answer in this equation, for our rather small Milky Way Galaxy, is 1000.
That's just ONE galaxy, out of millions.
