new deep space field

[DrLeftover]

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the farthest-ever view into the universe, a photo that reveals thousands of galaxies billions of light-years away.

The picture, called eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, combines 10 years of Hubble telescope views of one patch of sky. Only the accumulated light gathered over so many observation sessions can reveal such distant objects, some of which are one ten-billionth the brightness that the human eye can see.

http://www.space.com/17755-farthest-universe-view-hubble-space-telescope.html

 

[Evil Eye]

Space is just too big... maybe the people of Krikkit were right

 

[DrLeftover]

I find Douglas Adams almost unreadable. And I am sure he would say even worse about me. Which I'm surprisingly OK with... and thanks for all the fish.





But I am certain that Dr. Haldane was right when he wrote:



I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John Burdon Sanderson (Jack) Haldane (1892 - 1964) Geneticist/Biologist

 

[Evil Eye]

That sounds about right, yes.

I find Douglas Adams almost unreadable.

How about a simple comic then?

http://xkcd.com/975/​

Type II Kardashev civilizations eventually completely enclose their planetary system in a Dyson sphere because space is way too big to look at all the time.