The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
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They could've very well ended up with a blank image - but what they saw instead was something completely mindboggling.
Here's a wonderful clip by Tony Darnell of Deep Astronomy about the Hubble Ultra Deep Field that illustrates just how humblingly small us humans are in the grand scheme of the universe.- via gizmodo
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Hubble is in low Earth orbit so it's not stationary in space, and yes - like seekshelter said, it was risky in terms that they might not have come up with anything (while spending valuable telescope time).
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did anyone even listen to it? he said it was risky because use of the telescope's time was hard to come by. especially with the hubble and its shelf life... it was possible that they could point it out at the dark patch and find nothing at all thereby wasting 10 days that could have been used for something else. additionally, there is the cost of the data transmissions that they would have to pay for...which isn't cheap.
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Amazing! But i dont see how focusing on a dark part of the sky was risky?! Either way, the findings were out of this world. Haha.
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And the dummy asks, isn't the Hubble stationary in space? And if so, why does the animation show it swooping around like the Enterprise in orbit?
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Loved the video, hated the condescending "you can't really appreciate this, dummy" monologue.
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