[lbryce]

What's really mind-boggling is that the image is merely an infinitesimal fraction of the full depth of range just for this very narrow perspective.

[lbryce]

ping

[cripplecreek]

Just a tiny fraction of an inch square of the sky.

[JRandomFreeper]

My God does good work. Marvelous are His works.

/johnny

[Noumenon]

Galaxies like grains of sand...

[workerbee]

...10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky ... a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon.... The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.

And some would have you believe it's all just.... coincidence.

I often wonder what the late Carl Sagan thinks about, just now.

[dadgum]

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”

Can you imagine the ability to see and know all that has been created, with “knowing” that is not limited by our human perspective and senses...to finally “see” our God’s magnificent tapestry of creation as He sees it.

I can’t wait!

[American Constitutionalist]

Has it found Obama’s birth certificate yet ?

[TexasTransplant]

The deep, then the ultra deep and now the xtreme deep ... my favorite picture... it is and has been my desk top and if I need to clear my mind and start over I just look at it and go “WOW”

TT

[al baby]

There is a lot more nothing than something out there thats even more amazing

[Artie]

Each time I view this, I just cannot help thinking that we, the human race, is the highlight and the epitome of creation in the history of time.

[garjog]

From the play Our Town:

REBECCA: I never told you about that letter Jane Crofut got from her minister when she was sick. He wrote Jane a letter and on theenvelope the address was like this: It said: Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grover’s Corners; Sutton County; New Hamp-shire; United States of America.

GEORGE: What’s funny about that?

REBECCA: But listen, it’s not finished: the United States of America; Conti-nent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God — that’s what it said on the envelope.

GEORGE:

What do you know!

REBECCA: And the postman brought it just the same.

GEORGE: What do you know!

[fella]

And not a radio signal from any of those civilizations out there.

[no-to-illegals]

Thanks lbryce. Am simply in awe.

[IslamE]

­God is magnificent

[Carl Vehse]

From the NASA article: "The youngest galaxy found in the XDF existed just 450 million years after the universe's birth in the big bang."

Fantastic photos!!

Just think--we're seeing through the Hubble Space Telescope what has not been seen from here on earth since Helen Thomas looked up at the night sky as a little girl and saw that galaxy being formed.

[Gator113]

Amazing, profound, beautiful and mind boggling.....

Who else is out there and are they as amazed... when looking back at us?

[DoughtyOne]

I still say that 15th galaxy across and 25 down, is 3 degrees of it’s true orientation, but they won’t listen...

[Graewoulf]

WOW - - - - !

[DoughtyOne]

/s

[lbryce]

This is my favorite APOD. It is one of a female astronaut taking refuge in what I assume is the ISS observation deck, intense pondering, contemplating the population below of a planet in turmoil, the struggles of the collective dreams, desires, aspirations for the people,societies,civilizations and their quest to struggle, transcend the struggles, burdens they must deal with to make the most of the meager, measly lives from high up above. Home from Above Credit: Expedition 24 Crew, NASA Explanation: There's no place like home. Peering out of the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes in the planet on which we were all born, and to which she would soon return. About 350 kilometers up, the ISS is high enough so that the Earth's horizon appears clearly curved. Astronaut Dyson's windows show some of Earth's complex clouds, in white, and life giving atmosphere and oceans, in blue. The space station orbits the Earth about once every 90 minutes. It is not difficult for people living below to look back toward the ISS. The ISS can frequently be seen as a bright point of light drifting overhead just after sunset. Telescopes can even resolve the overall structure of the space station. The above image was taken in late September from the ISS's Cupola window bay. Dr. Dyson is a lead vocalist in the band Max Q. Challenge: Can you identify which part of Earth is visible in the background?