...if so, you'll soon be sportin' a new desktop image like mine

enjoy the HST's latest mind-bender....

http://blogs.discovermag...ep-to-see-baby-galaxies/

LOVE AND GRATITUDE!!

I feel much much much smaller than even an atom now..
I like space

Ahhh, so many places to go.

Thanks for the new desktop background.

Thanks for those Ant!I remember the first time i gazed on the hubble pictures when i was 13. I felt such an immense amount of wonder and awe.. like if everyone just saw the bigger picture the world would change in a day! lol

You guys should check out the 2x3ft hubble deep field posters you can get for like 20 bucks on amazon. Every time i feel stress coming on i glance at that and just melt

I love the stars, that's why I am sad that I live in the city now.

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Humbling.

Self-importance is thrown out the window.



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Thank you for the link, I adore stars. Ive been a star gazer since I was really small...


Much Peace and Happiness

I also love stars!
And to think that what we are seeing in that Deep Field picture are images from something that happened billions of years ago, it's so facinating, Hubble is trying to capture images from the Big Bang, which happened a few Billion years before those galaxies existed.

Amazing!

But there's only one person who loves stars more.
http://blog.neelz.be/wp-content/kimberly.jpg


Yea, sorry, i know.

Awesome.

Give me a clear night, with no light pollution, and I can lie on my back staring at the sky with the same amazement and wonder i've had since a boy.

I miss clear open sky. Here where I am, the sky is always cloudy or poluted. I havent seen a sky full of stars in a long time now.

Just for the record

I have seen the stars through my eye lids shut sitting in a tent 10,000 ft. up in Wyoming.
I could see through the trees, through the tent, through my eye lids,
but I could not see through the Earth.


Never been able to do it anywhere else...

When i see images like that i find it extremely humbling.Just one single point of light in space,revealing little,yet hiding so much.

Great thread Ant, love it!
Search for Hubblecast on youtube.

I can't think of any more inspiring images that those taken by the HST and other large telescopes like the VLT in Chili and Keck... OK, maybe the satellites and Mars rovers come close.

As a teenager I built my own clumsy but optically fine telescope and rode this monster to the darkest place in town after midnight. Some of the best moments of my life: watching the rings of Saturn in a self-built instrument.., the Ring nebula, the Andromeda galaxy! At best, I would get the strong feeling of being part of the universe, without any 'drugs'. Space is not 'out there', it's right here! Even with binoculars a lot can be seen.

Unfortunately, Holland is one of the worst coutries for star gazing

My all time favorite region of space are the (what used to be) the pillars of creation in the eagle nebula;

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/e4b/a7d/e4ba7dee-fe33-4118-bbe6-5a3d7b9342d1

Hell yea, if you look close enough, you can see little white dots, as you would focus to see stars in the night that arent that visible at all. Though, if we can't see all of our universe, like we can't, how exacly do they come up with its size? It would seem uncaculatable.

I can never stare at stars long enough.
When I was just a small boy, when everyone had gone to sleep, I used to get up and go sit on my window ledge and look at the stars for ages. I would talk to them, feel love, sit there deep in desire for devine. Even to this very day, I still do that. Just I'm too big to sit on any window ledge now

That's why they made roof's.