My name is Tim. I am an Internaut & Life Enthusiast. This blog is a poorly curated mesh of pop culture, music, humor, and shit that i find interesting.
Nosce te ipsum
souls still searching
Free counters
11/16/12
stats counter
Hubble Telescope Captures ‘Farthest-Ever’ Portrait of the Universe
It contains around 5,500 galaxies, some of which are one ten-billionth the brightness visible to the human eye. There are spiral galaxies that resemble our own Milky Way, fuzzy red galaxies where stars are no longer being formed (at the time the light left them), and faint young galaxies, not yet fully grown. “The history of galaxies — from soon after the first galaxies were born to the great galaxies of today, like our Milky Way — is laid out in this one remarkable image,” NASA said in a press release. For the oldest galaxies in the image, the light now reaching us first shone some 13.2 billion years ago, more than 8.6 billion years before Earth even existed.
Read more. [Image: NASA]
Reblogged from theatlantic with 493 notes | Permalink
The Universe