# Hubble Ultra Deep Field Portrait **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 8, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027 "2009-12-08T11:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/1 "2009-12-08T11:26:57Z")
Every time I see this image, it blows my mind. [http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/](http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/) > **[Hubble Ultra-Deep Field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field)** > > Coordinates: 3h 32m 39.0s, −27° 47′ 29.1″ The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 10,000 galaxies. It is composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 24, 2003, through to January 16, 2004. Looking back approximately 13 billion years (between 400 and 800 million years after the Big Bang) it has been used to search for galaxies that existed at that time. The HUDF image was... Our known universe is ~93 Billion light years across. That’s… **5.4671259 × 1023** **or 546,712,590,000,000,000,000,000 miles across!** There are maybe 100,000,000,000 galaxies, each with tens-of-millions of stars if not billions. Many of those stars are solar systems containing planets. [Ours has about 8](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Solar-system.png). One of those is known to harbor life, possibly more. Leaving out questions of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, it all sure make things here on Earth seem mighty insignificant. ---
**Author:** ![Clean\_Baldy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/clean_baldy/32/7308_2.png) [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/2 "2009-12-08T11:33:12Z")
"Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that evolving, Revolving at 900 miles an hour. It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, So it’s reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. ``` The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, It's 100,000 light years side to side, It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick, But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide. We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point, We go around every 200 million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions, In this amazing and expanding universe..." ``` “kind of makes you feel kind of… insignificant.” “So… can we have your liver than?” “Alright… you talked me into it.” “ERIC!” ---
**Author:** ![Clean\_Baldy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/clean_baldy/32/7308_2.png) [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/3 "2009-12-08T11:34:52Z")
My question is… how do you know you aren’t seeing more than one of the same galaxies in there? What if space wraps around like a big loop, as some predict? There could be only a million galaxies that apear a million times… 🙂 Still an awesome sight to see. Too bad nobody living today will even get to know anything about them ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/4 "2009-12-08T11:44:32Z")
> [@Clean Baldy](#): > > My question is… how do you know you aren’t seeing more than one of the same galaxies in there? What if space wraps around like a big loop, as some predict? There could be only a million galaxies that apear a million times… 🙂 > > Still an awesome sight to see. Too bad nobody living today will even get to know anything about them ☹ We would know if stars or galaxies were appearing multiple times. This happens when light sources are in close proximity to black holes: [http://hubblesite.org/explore\_astronomy/black\_holes/encyc\_mod3\_q11.html](http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/encyc_mod3_q11.html) Re: The HUDF, this is my favorite article on it so far. [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/08/hubble-digs-deep-to-see-baby-galaxies/](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/08/hubble-digs-deep-to-see-baby-galaxies/) It amazes me that they can point the most powerful viewing device we have into the blackest part od space and pull out ~10,000 more galaxies. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/5 "2009-12-08T11:52:41Z")
If as a species we survive adolescence I can’t begin to imagine what we will know in another 5000 years. Yeah, homo-sapien has been around for 250000+ years, but our scientific evolution has really only been going on since the bronze age less than 3000 years ago. In that time we’ve gone from rudimentary metal work to space probes reaching the edge of our solar system. I know when I seriously think about it I get a little depressed knowing I will miss out on so many secrets the future will uncover. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/6 "2009-12-08T12:05:54Z")
Our technological evolution has _really_ only taken place in the last ~200 years. Imagine where we would be if not for the gift of abundant energy on this planet in the form of fossil fuel? But, that is for another thread. ---
**Author:** ![PureXTC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/purextc/32/5223_2.png) [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/7 "2009-12-08T12:10:13Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > If as a species we survive adolescence I can’t begin to imagine what we will know in another 5000 years. > > Yeah, homo-sapien has been around for 250000+ years, but our scientific evolution has really only been going on since the bronze age less than 3000 years ago. In that time we’ve gone from rudimentary metal work to space probes reaching the edge of our solar system. > > I know when I seriously think about it I get a little depressed knowing I will miss out on so many secrets the future will uncover. There is also a belief that all complex life destroys itself before it conquers space travel/intelligence. Maybe you made it just in time? ---
**Author:** ![dtvburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dtvburns](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dtvburns)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/8 "2009-12-08T13:02:32Z")
> [@PureXTC](#): > > There is also a belief that all complex life destroys itself before it conquers space travel/intelligence. Maybe you made it just in time? that is the most pessimistic glass half full quote I have ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/9 "2009-12-08T13:06:17Z")
I just like hearing the words “Ultra Deep.” ---
**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hubble-ultra-deep-field-portrait/77027/10 "2009-12-08T13:13:20Z")
Meh, there are nicer galaxies…