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Old 07-November-2008, 04:40 PM
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Default Deepest Ultraviolet Image Shows a Sea of Distant Galaxies

Dive right in to this image that contains a sea of distant galaxies! The Very Large Telescope has obtained the deepest ground-based image in the ultraviolet band, and here, you can see this patch of the sky is almost completely covered by galaxies, each one, like our own Milky Way galaxy, and home of [...]

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I downloaded the full resolution image and all I can say is WOW!

ETA: When you look at this image you can't help to think about the probability of life in the universe. There must be billions of planets out there that could potentially harbor life.

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I downloaded the full resolution image and all I can say is WOW!

ETA: When you look at this image you can't help to think about the probability of life in the universe. There must be billions of planets out there that could potentially harbor life.
What saddens me is that any life that existed in that image is in the distant past.
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What saddens me is that any life that existed in that image is in the distant past.
Or could we be in their past?

That image is fantastic btw.
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Someone get me a warp drive or a scuba suit, because I'm diving in.
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