Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Looking into the past....or perhaps the future


This is a picture of distant galaxies far away from our own. It is said to be the most spectacular space picture because it is said to be millions of light years away. For those of you who don't know what a light year is it means it is the amount of time light from that star/galaxies in this case take to reach earth. So, if you think about it that light is millions of years old, so really we are looking the past. NASA thought this picture was great because what we are looking at might not exist anymore, because of what we can see there this was thought to be a great picture. In my mind I am most fascinated by what we cant see in this picture, perhaps new planets and suns, perhaps life.

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