Hubble's new beginning: Fantastic new images released

That is why I love America...innovative culture working on problems worth solving.

Actually, we will. Don't know about other belief systems, but the God of the bible definitely invites us to join him eternally amongst the angels and himself in a new heaven & earth!

It's neat in Genesis were we were created in "their likeness" (plural) so indeed, there are others in the universe! Isn't that cool? The bible talks about others coming to earth impregnating the humans!

yeah hes so omnibenvolant just take samartia referces in the bible where god rips open a womb flooding during noah leaving your family salvery cutting off sexual organs other people who pray and pray and yet they are still poor atheist portraying to persuade idiots like you to believe in jesus hell for those who are heretics discrimination against the handicapped discrimination against gays that sure is some god up there huh

Wow...

If we understood that we were simply beautiful expressions of some divine intelligence that is not definitive, or restricted to 1 interpretation, there wouldn't be a problem. but instead we have religions that claim to know the truth....Just search inside yourself....

thanks pakazak

i think the estimates of universe age is @5 billion light years. The new hubble can see about 4.5 billion..its a physics thing..

and damn, cyman01, you know how i love those physics things.
seriously.... i do :)

the hubble can see trillions of light years away. A light year is a distance, not an age I believe. Saw a documentary with many of these photos and MORE. It's amazing but the distance is most definitely trillions of light years away.

Still wondering why the comment about "seeing past the big bang"...that intrigues me because I still wonder where they think the big bang happened.

time and space--its relative.when we see 4 billion light years away,we are looking back in time---don't ask me, its way over my head,but thats how i interpret it...read the captions under pictures #2 and #11...it refers to age of galaxies.......

so if I get what your saying right a computer sees this and says "give the gamma radiation a blue color and the radio waves a green and the x-ray a whitish hue" and so on. But if a person could get within human visual range they wouldn't see anything?

yepyep,
i think you pretty much have hit that one on the head.
i like your description better.

No photoshop in these pictures. There are some gorgeous galaxies, black holes, comets and a host of other fantastic things out there.

my understanding is that all images from space have a 'color interpretation' added by an artist, with the color palette depending on what gases they think exist in the space object (star/nebula/galaxy)

@nobamayomama: So are you saying that "photoshop" wasn't used but some other color computer correction program was or it really looks like?

Imagine if you could see the wind or the shock waves emanating from the front of a passing locomotive both through the air and ground. Those would be beautiful/sensual as well.
"Sense imprisonment" was a big theme in the sixties...what if you could see beyond the visible, hear and feel beyond the audible?
A personal favorite would be to "watch and hear" the shifting stresses of a skyscraper or an aircraft carrier. Anybody work for the Discovery channel? What a show that would be--visualizing the dance of the mundane.
An interesting one I have seen is a bird flying through a smoke filled chamber to photograph the aerodynamic swirling/pressure differentials of flight...
It is all a childish kaleidoscope never to be forgotten as an adult.

One more for ya, have you ever heard bird calls slowed down and amplified? Operatic beyond belief!

So it's not photoshop..got it......it's a bit more like CGI. Like in the matrix when bullets have that really cool sound air effect thing going on. If we could see it, that's what it would look like. Right? but if the case of this NASA shot they have a little more liberty. Instead of a white, blue, red butterfly looking thing they could make it into a purple, green, orange butterfly looking thing? I mean the matrix bullets with rainbow kaleidoscope flying around might look a bit off.

@plusaf: I like the idea that if africa had a hubble we'd be looking at a red, black, and green pict and if Ireland had one it'd be orange, white and green and if the U.K. had one it'd be.....well.......kind of the same color I guess:)

But at least you were cool about it. That gets you points in my book.

i appreciate that.
500 more points and i get a free ride to the moon.... at least that's what my mate tells me.
peace bro'

Tell her you just got 250 more points. This is how conversation is supposed to go. You made a statement. I accepted the observation. Life goes on. Beautiful!

I guess I thought I was lamenting with someone in private...sorry you read it.

Science makes you humble. Smash and grind your own puny brain into the dirt with your own thumb humble. That's why we have politicians. They don't know anything and are arrogant to only further prove it. That's why we have town hall meetings. To accomplish nothing on both sides of the podium. "Smart politicians" (oxymoron) issue effective legislation and statements, most kiss cameras and babies. Where have you gone Bill Proxmire?
So do the masses follow scientists or politicians, pundits, jocks, rockers, and sit coms?
Scientists, engineers, designers, inventors, researchers are why we all live well! Just never mentioned much on prime time.
Smart innovative people, Luv ya, luv ya, luv ya!
Incumbents on both sides of the isle--big trouble a coming! You better steal while you can.
$35,000.00 per week for a rental vacation home...plus Secret Service protection. What was he thinking? A man for the people. Bah Humbug! If George Bush did that, David Letterman would have broadcast a show from the beach daring George to appear.
Only vote for representatives with a PhD in a scientific field. Let's try it for a time.

"Norm", if I was to tell you about my life and experiences here, you would not believe me. I have seriously thought about writing a book on " The Life of an Expat", in Nigeria. It is actually not too bad for me, but the poor people suffer a lot at their hands of their leaders. However, it is nothing like the U.S. There is practically no justice system here, as it has been subverted by the wealthy. The country has been looted by the few rich and powerful and I would even be in danger of my life for commenting on their corruption in an open forum.

Damn be careful...You give me a hollar if you already said too much. Can you get to an "untraceable" computer? It's already too late...Damn, be careful.

"plusaf", I will consider the advice.

Now, "Norm", I appreciate a good vienna sausage as much as the next man. Fishing and golf are great fun, also. Especially fishing. However, if you get a chance to see the night sky, on a cold winter night, isolated from light pollution or other visual interferences, that vienna and milk will taste like the food of the Gods. Good Luck!

I'm with ya, but the beauty of the universe is only appreciated by US! Is it as beautiful without eyes and a brain? NO!
Very weird.

Now maybe you could settle another universal discussion with my meat eating Hindu business neighbors. Cabrito. I say it is goat meat only. They say it is both lamb and goat. I say NAAAAAHHHH!

We dine noon tomorrow! Love this universe! But I would like to know if I am eating sheep or goat. Maybe I don't. Can't say I've had goat.

I am fairly sure that "cabrito", is Spanish for goat. However, I eat goat quite frequently as goat, fish and chicken, are the primary sources of protein in Nigeria. Goat meat tends to be very lean,as goats are in the same family as deer, it can be quite tough with most of the fat immediately underneath a very tough skin. We eat goat pepper soup, roasted goat, and isewu (sp) roasted goat head coated with a very hot pepper sauce. I mean the entire head, nose, eyeball, ears, etc. It takes a little getting used to, beer helps.