cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/989527
The fact that we are able to detect galaxies as they were a mere 300 million years after the creation of the universe is mind numbing.
The light emitted by HD1 is as it was over 13 billion years ago. Crazy.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Adams had it right.
oh this is one of my wallpapers
i did a 1920x1080 version out of it by horizontally tiling 3 duplicates of it like this (i got the freely licensed version from wikimedia commons under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)
This may be one of the coolest pictures I've ever seen in my entire life.
That fibrous look at the top of the image, is that what the universe looked like, or would sill look like from a sufficient distance?
The further out we go the more everything looks like a fungus. Mushrooms are the true aliens.
This image is 10mb!
TIL there's a Saraswati supercluster..
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