Posted on 07/04/2016 7:02:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Astronomers at The University of Nottingham have released spectacular new infrared images of the distant Universe, providing the deepest view ever obtained over a large area of sky. The team, led by Omar Almaini, Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, is presenting their results at the National Astronomy Meeting taking place this week at the University’s Jubilee Campus.
The final data release from the Ultra-Deep Survey (UDS) maps an area four times the size of the full Moon to unprecedented depth. Over 250,000 galaxies have been detected, including several hundred observed within the first billion years after the Big Bang. Astronomers around the world will use the new images to study the early stages of galaxy formation and evolution.
The release of the final UDS images represents the culmination of a project that began taking data in 2005. The scientists used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to observe the same patch of sky repeatedly, building up more than 1000 hours of exposure time.
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Amazing how many galaxies they detected!
Just goes to show just how really small & insignificant to the universe we really are
Respectfully disagree to the obverse. We are just that significant.
Breathtaking and utterly humbling.
extremely interesting
There is a great series of videos on Youtube called “Sixty Symbols” which is presented by professors at the University of Nottingham that are quite good.
I like Prof. Moriarty’s vids (not Holmes’s nemesis) quite a bit.
An idiot wrote this article. There is one detectable universe with many galaxies.
Yet God loves us anyway!
If a large enough meteor were to hit us today, who would mourn our passing, look at what we have achieved? My answer is no one, unless they were to come from a distant star & look at us we have done. Then they would laugh at us, for not moving ourselves from this one planet. And in the grand scheme of things we are but a tiny speck of star dust.
Perhaps, but it might very well be that we are an exceedingly rage thing in this universe. Intelligent life. When one looks at all the things that had to go just right at just the right time to create intelligent life on Earth, and that's just the things we know about, one might not be so confident that intelligent life exists in great numbers thru out our universe. We got lucky and it still took 4.5 billion years! The last 4 billion years have been very kind to planet Earth. No gamma ray bursts, no runaway climates, no planet killing impacts and no stars wandering thru our solar system causing chaos with our planets orbits. Quite remarkable.
Excellent.
Everything is.
Where in the article does it say otherwise?
Thanks MtnClimber, extra to APoD.
Whoops, thanks texas booster!
“If a large enough meteor were to hit us today, who would mourn our passing, look at what we have achieved? My answer is no one,”
I would like to think our (as yet unintroduced) galactic neighbors would think better of us than that.
No wonder that God had to rest after creating it.
Thanks....looks like some fun watching.
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