OUR EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM ARE JUST LIKE ATOMS IN AN OCEAN, pretty much just a few grams in comparison in this scale of things.
We’re important, and the show can’t go on without us, or at least that’s what we like to tell ourselves. The reality of the situation is a little bit different. Our daily grind is over little consequence in the cosmos, and an incredible photo captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is a great reminder of just how tiny we — and our entire planet and even solar system — are in the grand scheme of things.
The image, which NASA showcases in a new blog post, focuses on a galaxy cluster called ACO S 295. It’s a massive collection of individual galaxies in various shapes and sizes, ranging from gorgeous spirals to huge clouds of stars, planets, moons, and the like. It’s an almost unfathomable number of worlds captured in a single image, and it’s utterly impossible for any of us to know what lurks out there.
ALL THESE ARE GALAXIES, MILLIONS OF LIGHTYEARS ACROSS.
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The image — you can view the full-resolution version here — has a few hidden easter eggs that might not be obvious at first glance. It’s hard to tell the distance of any of the objects here, but the center of the image is the galaxy cluster itself and many of the smaller dots and smears throughout the image are galaxies in the background. Some of the more interesting things to search for are galaxies that look as though they’ve been stretched or bent at odd angles.
Nothing escapes the pull of gravity, not even light itself, so the light from the galaxies behind the cluster is often bent due to what is known as gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing was something that Einstein had many theories about, and he’s been proven right thanks to modern technology. When an object rests behind a large structure in space like a galaxy, the light from that object appears on the sides of whatever is in front of it, from our perspective. What we see is looks strange, but it’s actually just gravity distorting the light as it moves through space.
One reason i believe in an almighty creater is the unimaginable size of the visible universe and the universe we shall never see because it’s moving/expanding faster than light away from “us”.
I believe there’s a certain limit that the human mind can comprehend…read somewhere that if the brain attempts to cross that limit you’ll get vertigo (run mad)
The amount of energy and matter in the solar system is compatible to a matchstick and also the seconds it takes for a matchstick to burn and run out fuel is just as short as our sun’s lifespan in the galactic scale
Yeeeeah…Steven Hawkings. Na vile @IQBAL amesema hapo juu, ukijaribu ku fathom uta go mad. In the same, Hawking’s said he got inspiration from Einsteins theories, and at one time when Einstein was asked “how it felt to be the smartest man in the world, he replied that he had no idea, ask Tesla!”
Tesla naye, is on record as disagreeing with Einstein on his theory of relativity, saying that it was false and flawed.:eek:
I aint no physicist, but t i know that Tesla’s theories we’re and are practical to this day…the rest are just theories without actual proof. Hats off to Nicola Tesla, The Man Who Invented the 20th Century.
True, Tesla had brains of the gods. He deviced wireless transmission of energy which is what is used today to charge phones wirelessly. Tesla and Faraday were geniuses
Mimi nangoja James Webb telescope to be successfully launched late this year. We see the first light. It will look at the red shifted primordial galaxies.
Wow. Really? My brain can’t even start to comprehend it. I feel like my limited imagination is blowing up right now. The sun’s energy being equated to a matchstick? Surely who is like unto Thee, O God? More of these pls.
The man Tesla could get free electricity to the whole world from the ionosphere…could drop down any plane with a lightning strike…what he. Couldn’t do we will never know as he was kidnapped by faceless men in black aka aliens and all his manuscripts stolen
The universe is huge. If just our average galaxy is 100K LY across yet there are billions of such and much larger ones in just one view of Hubble, how many others are behind the telescope’s 270Degree blindspot. Our solar system is just like an atom of sulphur in a matchstick
There was a time I was fascinated by universe and thinking big ,until I realised the designer gave human beings simple tasks to accomplish on their little Earth and I decided to concentrate on those little tasks instead of thinking big which won’t equate to monetary value or any value addition for now .bonobo ndindu you have few coins and won’t go past the earths stratosphere
THe light from those galaxies was emitted some million of yrs ago and is just reaching us today. Meaning we got no clue how the galaxies look like in the present time
