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A Picture is Worth 13 Billion Light Years

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The most amazing thing about social media services like Twitter and Friendfeed is how rapidly you can find interesting articles and links. One of my good friends on Twitter, Charles Ju, recently pointed me to a picture which he only described as “this picture blows my mind”.

And sure enough, it completely blew my mind. I re-shared it on my own FriendFeed (garnering a couple of comments/responses from my own Twitter followers and Friendfeed friends) If you didn’t understand the scale of the universe before, this will put it all into perspective:

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A big wow for:

  1. How powerful social media services like Twitter and Friendfeed are for disseminating cool information/factoids/images
  2. How vast the universe is
  3. The capability of the Hubble Space Telescope to amass information about our universe

PS: If you’d like to follow the Bench Press authors on Friendfeed/Twitter you can follow me at http://www.friendfeed.com/benjamintseng, Kevin at http://friendfeed.com/ktseng, and Anthony at http://friendfeed.com/atphan.

Written by ben

May 13th, 2009 at 7:00 am

Posted in Links,technology

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  • Bob Dickerson
    If the Big Bang happened around 13.7 billion years ago, wouldn't the picture of deep space show the galaxies much closer together? They don't look much different from closer galaxies. Could the speed of light changed? Could the steady state theory be true? Is it at all possible that the light of obserdly distant galaxies could have travled in an instant, and the light we are now viewing is not tens of billions of years ago but just billion of light years in the distance.
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