This is the kind of image editors tell me is not interesting, but editors in this case are as wrong as wrong can be. This is a picture by the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory. It’s of the universe clear back, close to its beginning. The Herschel looked in far infrared wavelengths at a bare (to us) part of the universe called the Lockman Hole. Every single one of those nearly invisible dots is a galaxy. The red ones are the most distant. I’m close to fainting just at the very sight.
Click to enlarge. Then faint.
Photo credit: ESA/SPIRE and HerMES consortia
Context can turn smudgy and dimly colored dots into a sense of being so small as to indeed be faint. The function of mind that projects oneself into aeons of vastness is as rich and strange, perhaps, as the cosmos it attempts to perceive, experiencing conceptual vertigo in the process.
Or, Push the Button, Max!
It really is quite disconcerting and hunbling when you start pondering what ‘it’ is all about. The enormity of the Universe is something that most folk never think about.
Howver if you manage to actually engage someone in such a conversation for more that a fleeting second, you begin to realise how little people actually know about such matters and how truly insignificant we are in the scheme of things.
So much so that perhaps a certain well known search engine could have been renamed ‘Googleplex’ to give a better feel for the enormity of it all.
Wow, that’s an incredibly dense collection of galaxies. It’s hard to comprehend how vast our universe it when squinting at amazing images like that.
The dimensions of the universe are just unthinkable for the human brain. And the beauty of it makes us speechless. Every single dot a galaxy!! Just think of the dimensions of our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, and that’s supposed to be only a dot!!!
WOW when you enlarge the picture it is amazing. I often thin about the universe and what is out there just by being amazed seeing the plough outside my door at night. I love gazing into the shy but gazing into the galazy must be amazing
That is incredible. It kind of make me appreciate how special we really our on this ‘needle in a haystack’ planet.