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c/astronomy-photos•taylor.reesetaylor.reese•13d ago

Just found out the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image shows galaxies over 13 billion light years away

I was reading an article on the NASA site last night about the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. It said that tiny speck of sky, smaller than a grain of sand held at arm's length, contains about 10,000 galaxies. My brain just can't process that scale. I've looked at that photo a hundred times and never really got how far back in time we're seeing. Has anyone else had a moment where a space photo fact just broke their brain like that?
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paige331
paige33113d ago
My friend stared at that photo and just said "oh" for like five minutes straight.
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murphy.mason
Yeah the "oh" for five minutes thing is real. When a photo hits that hard, you just gotta sit with it. I get what @the_alice meant about feeling small, it's like your brain needs time to process the scale. Best thing is to not fight that feeling, just let it wash over you.
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the_alice
the_alice13d ago
That photo made me feel so small I just sat in my chair for a while.
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