Wednesday, October 12, 2005
That's deep
I check Wikipedia every day just for its Featured Article. Today's was on just about my favorite thing ever: the Hubble Deep Field.
The HDF came out in 1996, when I was a 12-year-old amateur astronomer, and was probably a formative thing in my life. I can recall long periods of staring at it in an issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, trying to comprehend it. A magnified picture of a tiny speck of the sky which contains literally thousands of galaxies is a difficult thing to wrap one's brain around. Look at it. That image captures all the romance of the universe.
I'd better stop looking at this, before I decide to move to New Mexico again.
The HDF came out in 1996, when I was a 12-year-old amateur astronomer, and was probably a formative thing in my life. I can recall long periods of staring at it in an issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, trying to comprehend it. A magnified picture of a tiny speck of the sky which contains literally thousands of galaxies is a difficult thing to wrap one's brain around. Look at it. That image captures all the romance of the universe.
I'd better stop looking at this, before I decide to move to New Mexico again.
