thatguyfromny
223003
8528
98
I am not the original author of this, I just thought it was really cool and needed to be shared again.
ButchMcKenzie
I've seen this a million times, and every time I see it again i'm still amazed
Hmuda
Debbywithawhy
I wonder if there are aliens? I hope we are cute to them the same way baby elephants are cute to us and I hope they don't hurt their pets.
foodisyuminmytum
R1Armadillo
These pics never get old! Truly mind blowing! And to think there are ppl out there that believe our planet is flat...
DimzD
Ya, with good reason to.
kwkspectre
The Hubble Deep Space Field photos are absolutely mind blowing. A tiny speck of nothing contains more stars than anyone can really fathom.
NoUseYourName9000
And every speck contains the same, across all views, around the globe
LoTRFanatic42
Can't wait until the James Webb telescope is launched and operational. It'll be able to see even further than Hubble ever could.
thatguyfromny
Less than three years later and...
BabaLovesAll
This kind of facts.creep me out, I can’t cope well with this mind boggling facts. Infinite space, kidding me, human mind isn’t made for this
Grandolddrummer
Anybody else re-read those same few sentences over and over again?
budgieSmasher
I was fairly convinced I was having a stroke
sillymapper
I'll call you the bondulance.
abrakadumbass
hubble ultra deep field, actual exposure time was 11ish days, not 4 months straight. I think you can still get glossy prints from NASA
andreAwardPilot
Yet, many believe in some sort of higher being that's very picky about what we eat and when, who we sleep with and how. Funny, are we?! ?
DarseZ
We're self obsessed , makes sense we'd invent a god that's obsessed with us
OutThereBad
The Bible speaks of other worlds and it being more than us. Please don't conflate misinformation to attempt to prove a point or discredit
OutThereBad
Also, this breaks science on rules of science. Think about for a sec. And I'm heavily involved in different fields of scientific study
idontlikepickingusername
I think we should build a giant mirror so that other civilizations can look back in time at themselves.
NoUseYourName9000
The fuck
AMIMI89
iamthatgirl
It always fucks me up that we are a part of this vast, wondrous universe, bigger and more complex than we could ever comprehend... 1/2
iamthatgirl
2/2 ... and yet we spend our lives warring over land, resources and religion, and hating each other for skin colors and who we like to bone.
princessbutterstuff
ya but like what did kim kardashian do today???
kf1005kf127001
Her ass qualifies as a galaxy
kennymwolf101
The. Hell with the Kardashians they are nothing but specks like everyone else. They became famous of a trial that turned out to be a big jo
WardenHarryDresden
senyu
https://m.imgur.com/a/8zTJDN2
rodgerip143
Yea cute ???
RobJenkins
It's inevitable that one of them will be a bug planet
Rifneno
It's fine, I spared the rachni queen. She owes me one.
RobJenkins
Bug propaganda made you sympathise, need to open your eyes soldier
hotrodny
And the existence of human kind is but a blink. None of us will live long enough to get a total understanding of its greatness :/
DimzD
That’s what the devil wants you to think. You are a puny worthless spec in a massive endless universe.
hotrodny
We all are
DimzD
Na.
hotrodny
Ya
nugo520
am I the only person who kinda has a mini existential breakdown when ever I read something like this?
thepenismightierthanyours
Nope
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
We are not the only life. There is other life out there.
DimzD
Ya outside the dome. Other than that? No.
BugOutReady1
“Two possibilities exists: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Arthur C Clarke
OlMuskybackatitagain
One of my favorite quotes:)
Cyffu
"lol, grab a snickers" made my day :')
LordKrups
I just ate a snickers so I actual felt prepared haha
ThisIsMyUsernameNotMyComment
Haha me too
thatguyfromny
We should start with a Mars bar first though. So we can have that last beer before Alpha Centauri
OrchidCelestialEyes
The last star fighter ?
IvoryAS
I don't get it.
ThisIsMyUsernameNotMyComment
Neither do I but I'm pretending to
SonOfShepherd
Imagene all the things we could discover out there if we just got our shit together as a specie than putting so much money in warfare...
DimzD
We invest in war cause ain’t nobody leaving orbit due to an impossible force. Operation fish bowl. We are fish.
thatguyfromny
And get our asses handed to us by the first aggressive aliens we encountered?
Comet260
Look what happened when we met the Turians.
ExpendableIndigo
I mean, the nearest other galaxy is impossibly far away. Like billions & billions of years.
XAMANDER
DimzD
Bible says the stars will fall to the earth, if that was really the size we would be super screwed.
IMayOrMayNotBeWearingPants
wow.....amazing.......so cool........it just keeps going!.......mother fucker +1
Lowendtheory77
Glorious
dissociativeidentitydisorder
i was expecting the post to end like this tbh
NoUseYourName9000
Waited, worth it
jamiehowarth0
TmlpGfdp
Try to tell me then that no other form of intelligence exists somewhere else ...
inshadowz
There's no reason to assume that we'll find intelligent life on other planets. We still haven't found any on *this* one.
TmlpGfdp
but there is you ;)
thatguyfromny
Yes, but do they have their own version of Imgur? Are they looking at similar photos of us from their perspective right now?
Fraggleish
About 4 pics in I was expecting there to end up being either Michael Cera or Dickbutt in this post.
TheRustySheriff
This is the sort of shit that reaffirms my belief there HAS to be other life out there. The scale is too big for there not to be.
DimzD
That’s why it isn’t real. All of it is considered art not actual photos.
hereforcake
I think part of our evolution as a species or a planet is to come to the very obvious reality/realization that we are not the center (1)
hereforcake
(2) of the universe and we are not alone and that evolution as an entire universe is the epitome of evolution itself.
NoUseYourName9000
There are multiple copies of ourselves doing this very thing right now. Hi me to trillions of different me's. Hi, hiHi, hi Hi, hiHi, hiHi...
DirkNurple
Isn’t Hubble geo synchronous? How does it stay pointed at one spot if we’re always moving?
DimzD
It makes more sense if earth wasn’t spinning/moving at 10k speeds. It’s all a bunch of bs really.
murphymcse
Nope. Only 550 miles up. To be geostationary you have to be 22,000 miles from home.
murphymcse
You might be thinking of the TDRS, the communication satellite Hubble uses to talk to White Sands.
thatguyfromny
Gyros.
MrPizzaGuy
And here I was thinking I couldn't feel any more insignificant than I already do...
thatguyfromny
And no one on any of those quadrillionbillion planets in any of those gazillion galaxies gives a rats ass what color shirt you picked today.
DimzD
You are special cause there is only 1 of you. Universe is only pictures. Don’t believe that you’re just a worthless spec. Universe is tiny.
Phathongas
Imagine how many lifeforms we've unknowingly taken photos of just by photographing the sky
WhyIOrta
Tree fiddy
SheTurnedMeIntoANewtButIGotBetter
even worse... naked lifeforms... maybe we are the perverts... and that's why they don't visit us anymore...
VelvetSin
There is an amazing book tangentially related to this premise. Quarantine by Greg Egan
just4thelolz
Man, we're peeping creeps.
DimzD
None at all.
DeviledAvacado
Any time I hear someone say "according to our understanding of physics, this shouldn't exist", I get a shiver down my spine. Science is hot.
Janusha
Every time you hear someone say "this shouldnt exist" you are talking to someone who doesnt know shit. Scientists pretty much know.
cod102084101
This made me laugh
jesstaurantalizardbeth
Fuck yeah it is! My husband is a scientist and I LOVE it.
momojm6724
Haha you crazy morherfuxker.
MexicanWarMachine
To be fair, that statement is nonsense.
3DRiley
I wouldn't call that hot. It just means we have yet to integrate it into current theories.
artheust
Don't shivers usually come from cold? Maybe technically Science is cold?
nipaxon
That is why i belive there are dimensions beyond our physichal world, people would say its not real, but just because it isnt physical (1/2)
nipaxon
doesnt meant its not real. Everything has to be material and physical for us for it to be real. (2/2)
Samiinthehood
But how does one operate with what's abstract? I don't believe in multiple dimensions due to g-wave energy drop off not correlationg with /
Samiinthehood
More than 4 dimensions
Samiinthehood
Also other dimensions are just force fields or fine constants (gauges), em field etc
jenis4love
Ain’t it tho? ???
IDontCareImRelevant
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly.
murphymcse
I love Bill Nye's response to that, "Bees do fly--so it must be our theory that's missing something."
charleszorn1
Whenever I hear that, I find a physicist. Preferably an Astrophysicist. More funding for NASA and more telescopes please!
UpvotesLivesMatter
If THIS "shouldn't" exist... imagine the amount of things that does exist but remains undiscovered or not truly understood by us
WristDeepInaPussy
According to our understanding of physics, your mom shouldn't exist
TheEmeraldProphylactic
Yo momma so large, she collapsed in on her own black hole!
NoUseYourName9000
I think you're down votes are for not saying brown hole, maybe, why else?
3DRiley
Her mass is too high for her own rs.
timemarcheson
RydWolf
She's too damn HOT!
ShowMeYourButtonhole
Science is hot.
DeviledAvacado
Yeah, she's pretty amazing like that.
WristDeepInaPussy
OGsatan
Damn, saved
EpistolaryBigby
badgerkin
Im firing my lazerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs
SmartAssWithAKeyboard
Whenever I hear that, I automatically assume they don't know shit about physics or science.At most it's an anomaly. Not,"it shouldn't exist"
TolstoyTheFox
It's more of a "if things worked the way we thought, this wouldn't happen." It's not that we're wrong, just that we don't know everything.
DeviledAvacado
I think it's more "yesterday, we didn't think this was possible. Now we're just confused".
stronomer
It's also not true: we do understand how this galaxy got this massive. I have no idea where this statement comes from in the first place.
Gidave
Generic popscience 'facts' happen.
Sxualhrssmntpanda
That's because the statement was also made 13 billion years ago
lordlunge
Surely these are still theory's under our current understandings. We once thought that grains of sand where the smallest things in the unive
stronomer
A scientific "theory" is a model of our understanding. It might not be complete, but don't mistake that for the common word "in theory".
lordlunge
I'm with you, exciting to think of the parts we are missing and what we will find in the years to come
GeneralAnubis
Got a link on that? Interested to read the science on it
forsale90
For the math behind it you have to look for the virial theorem and the virial mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virial_mass
abhorance
It stole a lot of stars from a neighbor galaxy as it rotates, giving it the spiral "grand design" faster than it would have on its own
abhorance
It's not to large to exist, it was just seen in a shape that it shouldnt have had for its age
Janusha
Haha what? Stole stars from a neighboring galaxy? Do you realise how far galaxies are from eachother? What a thing to say.
echonite
That is probably where the idea came from, before it was known to have stolen stars. Physics says is shouldn't be that big for its age.
stronomer
Not really. We basically have distances and masses for all of the galaxies in the H-UDF. Given that, we can place them in ... 1/n
Bunsen
When I heard the learn'd stronomer, / When the facts, the knowledge were ranged in comments before me,
Bunsen
I upvoted all of it, because scientific progress is awesome and Whitman can eat a dick.
stronomer
...(Imgur ate my follow-ups) ... So we can place them in context of our galaxy evolution models. I was able to trace ... 2/n
stronomer
...the statement to https://www.space.com/1608-massive-distant-galaxy-calls-theory-question.html . I know Bahram ... 3/n
DeviledAvacado
Yeah, but there are other phenomenon that do have scientists scratching their heads, and they gets super hyped when they figure it out.
stronomer
Tell me about it :-) Rarely in epiphany moments, I have to say, but major progress is always a cool feeling.
eggmuffin
They get super hyped when a trusted theorem gets torn down and needs to be replaced, too. I love scientists.
stronomer
Best thing: knocking down a "paradigm". Done that twice, felt good but took/takes a lot of convincing. Old habits die hard.
forsale90
As a physicist: I'm always surprised how boring the stuff sounds I get excited about. Like multi messenger astronomy.
xenofect
What's that?
forsale90
Combing sources of information, like electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves and neutrinos to get a more complete picture of space.
Jakuberno
Could you elaborate? Or give us a link?
forsale90
https://physicsworld.com/p/collections/multimessenger-astronomy/ here are some articles.
stronomer
Combine observations in optical, infrared, X-ray, radio,... Much more information content than "just" a simple HST image.
FoxKeegan
And the real mindfuck? They all look different now, cuz everything in that picture is the way they looked 13 billion years ago.
vulgarisvulture
Because*
tristanryan1337
No the mind fuck is that light is instant
BartWillemsen
If it still exists. Most stars would probably be dead already. Unless new stars were formed from their dust.
ChillageInn
Lapkin
The real mindfuck is that humanity would never leave our local cluster of galaxies, unless faster than light travel is possible.
Keydan
Cool plot twist for sci-fi novel. Scientist discover a wormhole, enter and every galaxy except ours is gone, extinguished.
SilverShade
Doctor Who already kind of did that
AndreasNV
Yeah, it's not like last year or 100 years ago or 100,000 years ago, all numbers which I can comprehend. Thirteen ... billion? Like ... Uh.
pupperonigold
I wonder if one of those galaxies is us seeing ourselves billions of light years ago
kaceythehound
I’m not high enough to appreciate this statement.
greendogblue
The real mindfuck? They were all Albert Einstein
brandostewar4792
True. So true
ryanbello48
damn, they should really take new pictures if they're that outdated
UPerinOR
marktheshark911
Well they would only look 15 years older now
FoxKeegan
Heh, ok, 13,000,000,015 years ago
cre8majic
"Stars that clear, have been dead for years, but the memory lingers on..."
ChubxLife
Just here to acknowledge your bright eyes reference. Carry on
cre8majic
roger wilco, that phrase sticks in my head
PapaCake
Except we now know that the speed of light is not a constant
PapaCake
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/speed-light-not-so-constant-after-all
DescribingWhatYoureWatching
what if they're vampire galaxies though?
Grillparzer
ehh, I'll wait.
BatmanIPad
hershberg
13,000,000,015* years
OlderWiser
13 billion light years.
FoxKeegan
The irony of your username is not lost upon me
PandaLord200
*STFU*
silentbob62
Well no. They're all different ages. Their age is their distance from us. Only the absolute furthest are 13 billion years old.
FoxKeegan
They can't be different ages. The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, and the light from those in the OP took that long to get to us.
FoxKeegan
Unless you're being pedantic about 800 million years or so?
silentbob62
Why do you think the light took the entire time to get here? For every galaxy? Thatd mean they are all the same distance. Clearly they arent
FoxKeegan
"Why do you think the light took..." cuz it literally says:
silentbob62
Yeah, but that's wrong. So is the point about there being no stars in the picture.
ArtOfKarolMichalec
The real mindfuck is that Homo sapiens dare to imagine they’re so self important Jesus visited them 2000 years ago and told them not to wank
RitzkinNeverCameBack
This is a very pertinent point. but seriously though. Don't wank.
DoctorDerpper
ChrisFarley.jpg. Sinner lol
bollabr
beleginwaffle
I thought it was something like, treat others the way you want to be treated.
ArtOfKarolMichalec
Tell that to the northern Irish bakers that refused to bake a gay cake
LifeOfTheCray
Ill pass. Fuckers qre crazy over there
ActuallyImSpartacus
I didn’t get that memo.
Matteo1971
Me neither..
Marrafaqa873
I'm pretty sure they wrote a book about this kinda thing... forgot what it's called though.
DPCerberusBlaze
Harry Potter and the Existential Crisis?
WhatIfTho
Even more of a mind fuck: Somehow nature pushed star dust to become fully aware conscious living things and now we're observing ourselves.
prinstusind
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
MightyShoePrint
"You are made of star dust, but so is garbage so calm the hell down."
lBugRunner
“Nature”
Magjee
We're a work in progress
raminagrobis
DenaliRaven
Who’re you calling dust, punk?
Notyouraveragecar
The twinkle in your eyes is beautiful punk
Redisia
You looking for a fight?! Ill grind you into dust... Sorry had to
neutrik
The further you look, the further you travel back in time. If we could put a giant mirror 1 light year away from Earth, and then observe 1>
neutrik
1> our planet through it (let's say with Hubble), the you would see the Earth 2 years ago. Suppose you could zoom to see the surface 2>
neutrik
2> and people living there... What would you see...
thiscommentwillselfdestruct
Hey I'm batin' over here!
CraftedLine
I'm going to take a wild guess, but we'd possibly see humans living.
OhNoSeriouslyImNotCreative
RestartingThisAppAgain
I do this with Google maps all the time
ritscheratsche
Trying to comprehend 13 billion years makes my head hurt.
youcanpooptoo
13,000,000,000 years... Or 4,745,000,000,000 days... Or 1.1388e+14 hours... Or 4.09968e+17 seconds. Does that help?
NothingToAdd
Bakers dozen billion
tiikuri
It's like a billion, but 13 of them.
iSoul95
That helps
FoxKeegan
To put that into perspective, OUR galaxy has only existed about that long. Our planet is 4.5 billion years old.
ClydeTheBelovedBandit
Which means someone somewhere might look at out galaxy through a telescope and say "goddamn, thats a galaxy forming" shits baller.
Janusha
No not really.
Magjee
1/2 At the speed of light, you would go around the world in an eight of a second, 2 seconds to the moon, 8:17 minutes to the sun.
maybewehitaskunk
To the sun would be 500 secs or 8:33 ?
Magjee
2/2 At the speed of light it would still take you 44 billion years to reach the edge of the known universe.
AlienWatcher
I think it's more 'the semi-known universe'. We barely know our solar system, the universe is still a big mistery.
AllTheEbola
And further than that it is impossible to reach because space is expanding faster than the speed of light.
Magjee
Oh yea, by the time you get there it would be all different. Even some of the stars we see are likely gone :(
peoplecalltheromanstheygothehouse
No no no, jebus says 4000years and so does the pastor. (Please don’t ask me what fuels my F150)
HowDoIMemes
Wut fuels ur Chevy?
LightningMcQueef
Mountain Dew and his love of Larry the Cable Guy
RegisteredAirplaneDoctor
And what fuels Larry the Cable Guy?
CraftedLine
Found the liberal.
Colonelconstipation
Actually, Just because someone is atheist does not necessarily mean they are liberal. I am atheist and have a middle view on politics.
pareidoliaperson
Found the artichoke.
CraftedLine
Colonelconstipation
They’re definitely some kind of vegetable
poorwhitetrash
As someone who also drives a F150, it runs on freedom and liberal tears! Gitterdunn!!
GeneralAnubis
I guess the downvoters didn't catch the very obvious /s. Have a +1 from this Christian who also thinks young earth creationism is braindead.
fartbiscuit
DrBlackMiami
Yay!!!!! an imguirian who also is Christian and believes in the true age of the universe.. DM me bro!!!
deviantduck69
Or cause he should have bought a Dodge.
GeneralAnubis
Ooooh solid theory
poorwhitetrash
*2,018 years old, duh.
pareidoliaperson
So it's a little more than two days...?
TenWholeBees
I’d say at least 4
SilverShade
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PoshFatHarborporpoise-small.gif
SilverShade
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PoshFatHarborporpoise-small.gif
SeanOfTheNotSoDead
Technically if we started at 0, that was year 1. So we've completed 2,018 years and are completing 2,019th.
SendMeOxygen
Err you sure bout dat?
SeanOfTheNotSoDead
Yes.
guardianofhonor
It’s year one 365 days after the start. I.e. year 0 day 16, year 1 day 45, year 2018 day 293.
guardianofhonor
In conclusion, we are completing the 2019th year
SendMeOxygen
But this depends on them calling the first year “Year 0” so no