call it "the most important image ever taken."
is actually not a single photograph, but a set of them, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope between 2003 and 2004. In the picture, the myriad of galaxies we see is located about 13,000 million light years away *, which means we're seeing what was in the universe just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The first galaxies that existed.
The image makes an impact at an early stage. Each tiny dot on it is actually a galaxy with hundreds of thousands of stars, and the number of galaxies that are impossible to count. And this is just a small portion of the sky as the Hubble peered for months. Does feel a little insignificant, while distressing to think the remaining years to actually travel to other worlds. Although, as Carl Sagan said, "we be happy because we are, in fact, the first time in human history where we are visiting other planets. "
Ultra Deep Field
(Click and zoom in to see this image and its importance)
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