Hubble? More like Humble . . . just too too beautiful . .

mark2929 wrote on 3/10/2004, 9:27 AM

Time for reflection and nothing like looking at the wonder of the UNIVERSE where all of time can be seen. Our history, all there. To think that some Stars are now seeing some of our early TV Transmissions. OUR tiny Place in the scheme of things. And it dosent end there all the Limitless boundless dimensions that are also part.

Just downloaded the 70+mb Movie clip

filmy wrote on 3/10/2004, 9:42 AM

I saw this on the news last night and it sort of blew me away. How do they figure out that "the smallest lights" are from before the creation of earth some 15 billion years ago? Or that the small red lights are created right after the big bang that created our solar system? It just blows me away - I mean I get the concept of time/light and by the time "we" can see something from out there years have passed - but the whole 'billions of years' concept just is amazing.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/10/2004, 9:52 AM

Beautiful images!

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RichMacDonald wrote on 3/10/2004, 10:04 AM

>Beautiful images!

Bah humbug. Just a bunch of folks playing around with color correction :-)

Just kidding. This is the real deal. Back in 86 I was only a few months away from trying my hand at Nasa. Then the first shuttle blew up and in the aftermath I realized it wasn't the place it used to be. I still wonder sadly "what if?"

mjroddy wrote on 3/10/2004, 10:09 AM

Truely Awesome.
Thanks for the link Grazie.

BE0RN wrote on 3/10/2004, 10:10 AM

I'm sure all you know the hubble will be gone as of 2006....funding wasn't renewed, and since GWB announced getting rid of space shuttles, the mission they had planned to replace Hubble's batteries was scrapped as well...which means the end of the Hubble.

BillyBoy wrote on 3/10/2004, 11:24 AM

The how they know part is based on something called "The Doppler Shift" Fairly simple explination here:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/doppler.htm

There are plans to launch a new space telescope about 10 times more powerful than the Hubble in several years, then a little further out a much large one still to be positioned on the opposite side of the moon, but that one is not suppose to include any visual instruements, mostly a radio telescope.

vitalforces wrote on 3/10/2004, 12:27 PM

Not to detract from the beauty of creation, but Dr. Paul Laviolette has investigated the various aspects of current astrophysics that still don't add up, and has developed a theory based on advanced studies of both astronomy and quantum physics, to the effect that there never was a Big Bang, but rather that the Universe is a cycle of creation and destruction which never begins or ends--a field, if you will. When or where the field precipitated out of, or from what kind of pre-materiality matrix, is still undeveloped--though Dr. Laviolette claims to have resolved Einstein's unified field theory as a side benefit to his work.

But hey, ain't them stars pretty anyway....

BillyBoy wrote on 3/10/2004, 1:11 PM

The numbers are mind numbing. They're now talking over a billion galaxies, each having between 100-300 million stars. Also the age and size of the universe keeps getting estimated as older and larger.

PeterWright wrote on 3/10/2004, 4:44 PM

>" To think that some Stars are now seeing some of our early TV Transmissions."

- apparently I Love Lucy is rating really well.

Thanks for the link Grazie - beautiful stuff.

PH125 wrote on 3/10/2004, 5:15 PM

NICE!!!!

farss wrote on 3/10/2004, 5:36 PM

So that explains why I'm getting older and larger as well?
I'll have to try that explanation on the wife.

farss wrote on 3/10/2004, 5:49 PM

You can see some of this kind of stuff at the Sydney Observatories 3D cinema, I'd highly recommend it to anyone in this part of the world. Most impressive 3D I've ever seen, very high resolution generated live so they can control not only the percieved depth but also the point of convergence so you can see the planets going into the screen and then they move one out so it's on the tip of your nose.

But the best bit of all is I get a credit at the end, assuming they're still running the segment on the history of the observatory I did some work on in Vegas.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 3/10/2004, 7:42 PM

Thanks for the link... I was meaning to check those videos out. I'll actually be using some of these in a presentation I'll be doing this Friday at the Orange County Astronomers.

Keeping this on-topic... I actually produce a cable show "Look Up Tonight" for the club (two 30 minute shows) that is broadcast to over 400,000 homes (if they only knew to watch that is)...

The show is edited (by me of course) using Vegas.

I'll probably also use some of the video in the next show I produce (from what I can gather from the copyright notice on the site it looks like they are free to use... especially ina non-commercial product).

kevgl wrote on 3/10/2004, 8:58 PM

Is that link still operating? I've been trying it from time to time all day and it just times out ...

Cheers

BillyBoy wrote on 3/10/2004, 9:19 PM

I've been trying too all day (the high bandwith link) suppose to be a 75 MB file and it hangs about half way into it every time. Probably the site is getting too many visitors.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 3/10/2004, 10:19 PM

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