[manwiththehands]

Great post. My homepage has been set to Refdesk.com for years and I try to check APOD every day. The Hubble Deep Field is the most impressive image I have ever seen ... then when you read just how much of a SMALL area of the cosmos was photographed ... it's impossible to wrap your head around it.

[zeugma]

I love showing the Deep Field to people. Explaining how small a slice of the sky that is, and that every single speck you see on that image is a galaxy... Blows people's minds. I think it is astounding that Hubble can image like that. Remember back when it was launched? The media was squawking like chicken little complaining that it was next to useless. Fortunately, our engineers were able to not only work around the spherical abberation, but were ultimately able to make Hubble see better than designed.

The Deep Field is the ultimate tool to put some perspective into folks.