Space images move me...

[and-justice-for-all]

more so then human art. I just do not get the same feeling I get from looking at these Galaxies, when I look at human art.

I can not look at these images of Galaxies and not think that there is life there, intelligent life..


How can anyone? It is so unrealistic to look at these images and get that feeling?



I just can not let go of all the opportunities that are out there for life to have formed, intelligent life as well.

For me, it is unfathomable to consider that life only showed up here, I can not believe that at all and will not. The odds are far in favor that life, intelligent life, does and has existed elsewhere.

[Peace Patriot]

1. I agree.

Think of an ant's view of the Earth. Most ants plugging along thru life on the tiny ant highway, carrying a chopped up piece of leaf into the nest, then going back out to find more...never looking up, of course, but also, unable even to perceive the shape and size of Earth. In relation to the Great Universe, we are like teensy ants, mostly consumed with our own survival and that of our "nest," our family/community--and, because of the brains we have inherited, just beginning to understand the parameters of Earth, its amazing history and our own evolution, with only a few of us focused on looking up, to that staggering reality "out there."

Billions and billions and billions of suns in our own galaxy alone, and billions and billions and billions of other galaxies, swirling wonders with billions and billions and billions more suns to the limits of our perception, and each galaxy more colorful, more spectacular and often stranger than we could ever have guessed, and all of it very likely to be teeming with life, because the elements of life are everywhere, have found to be common in our own little solar system, and there are planets everywhere, of all sizes, shapes and stages of evolution, circling billions and billions and billions of suns, times billions and billions and billions of galaxies, to infinity. We little ant-humans can hardly compass it. Fifty-sixty years ago, we didn't know about the other billions and billions and billions of galaxies! It's as if an ant were to be suddenly granted an outsized brain and get transported to the moon, and could see the Earth as we know it to be: the mountains, the oceans, the continents, the islands, the vast swirls of green and blue! Zillions of places for an ant hill! Endless food!

And the more we can see, the more beautiful and utterly amazing does the Great Universe become.

[RC]

2. There is sure not much intelligent life in this corner of the universe.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist elsewhere.
I have a picture on the wall next to me, of the other side of Saturn, with its rings lit up by the sun hidden by Saturn. Our huge world just being a small grey dot between a couple of the rings. That puts things in a better perspective because Saturn is well within our own solar system. Our planet looks so small because it really is just a another piece of dust in the grand scheme of things...

[Buzz Clik]

3. I have an enormous book of Hubble Images.

I want my own Hubble telescope.

[Taitertots]

4. Every time we look there is more

We went from being in just a galaxy. Then we found there were as many Galaxy's as grains of sand on all the beaches of earth. Then we found that all these galaxies were just specks in Galaxy clusters. Then we found that these clusters may very well be part of super clusters.


If every single person on earth expended their remaining lives counting galaxies we would all exhaust our lives without making a dent.

[LunaSea]

5. How do you feel about human created space imagery?

www.iaaa.org

[and-justice-for-all]

6. I don't mind fantasy art or artist interpretation of Space...

But the real deal is the best.
On Edit: Im down, looks great...thanks.

[BlooInBloo]

7. "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me

and the moral law within me."

- Immanuel Kant, closing of Critique if Practical Reason.

[RT Atlanta]

8. Hubble Ultra Deep Field

How can one look at this image and not sense the awe and sheer size of the universe? I expecially love this one because the scientists have said that just about every spec of light in this image is in fact its own galaxy (each, with hundreds of millions of stars in it).

This image is so very humbling to me.

[and-justice-for-all]

12. Speehless..nt

[pokerfan]

13. UDF Skywalker v1.0

The UDF Skywalker v1.0 is the best way to surf the Ultra Deep Field unless you really want to download the full resolution http://zebu.uoregon.edu/hudf/">(6,200 x 6,200 pixel) image. Within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field there are approximately 10,000 galaxies. The total field of view represents only one ten-millionth of the total sky and is comparable to a postage stamp at twenty yards.

Fortunately, we have the http://www.aip.de/groups/galaxies/sw/udf/swudfV1.0.html">UDF Skywalker server:



http://www.aip.de/groups/galaxies/sw/udf/swudfV1.0.html

[RagAss]

9. Me too. Because I am looking at myself.

[n2doc]

10. I love this one

NGC 7331, it is called the Milky Way's Twin"...



Almost like a Van Gogh...

[and-justice-for-all]

11. That is awsome...

I bet the world there is life there...

[pokerfan]

14. This one is my current favorite

It's the center of the Milky Way:



Go http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090107.html">here and click on the image to get the high resolution version (6000 pixels wide).

[and-justice-for-all]

15. NO words..nt