Remember the '90s? When we had such amazing picture taking technologies as Polaroid cameras? When cameras used to look like this:
Yes well that was also when we sent the
Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. That bad boy is a 7.9 foot aperture telescope that can see near ultraviolet rays, near infrared rays (like predator), and visible light rays. Us humans can only see the visible light rays (hence the name visible light). It's the only telescope that's designed to be serviced by astronauts in space while orbiting and it orbits the earth 14 to 15 times per day. It has taken some seriously sweet pictures that opened our eyes to new images and sparked our imaginations as to what's actually out in the depths of space.
So what does this picture and the Hubble have to do with deep space? Well, over the past 10 years the Hubble has been taking pictures for NASA and all of those pictures were patched together and created the eXtreme Deep Field (
XDF) photo. This photo is the deepest that we have ever been able to see into space:
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| This image is the deepest we've ever seen into space XDF |
That image has 5,500 galaxies in it. The Hubble detected all of those galaxies and some of them were one ten-billionth the brightness that the human eye can sense. That raises the question for me what more are we missing even on our own planet?
~Nate
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