Your looking at what has been called the most important picture ever taken. It is a little fuzzy you might be saying to yourself but soon you will know why. This picture was taken by Nasa Hubble telescope. Nasa took a chance and pointed the telescope at a patch of sky the that had little or no stars. From the human eye here in earth the amount of space we could see was about the size of a grain of sand in the sky. It took days to complete the image and people thought it was stupid to take a picture of a patch of space that looked so desolate. Then the pictures cam back and what they found was stunning. Each of the star like things in the picture are complete galaxies. They found that their are billions of galaxies and each of them contain millions of stars. With Many potential planets in orbit of those stars. In light of this it is almost obscene to think that their is not life on other planets. We are actually looking into the past when you see this image. The light photons had to travel 450 million light years to reach the Hubble telescope. The question is as technology advances how much better will these images get. In the future, will we be able to build a new telescope that will be able to take pictures of planets in these far off galaxies? Could we see if their was life on a planet that actually happened 450 million years ago. Could we one day capture these photons of a distant planet? Or could we ever send radio waves that a distant planet could receive 450 million years from now and give them a feed of our culture that’s happening today? How far away will we be able to see with these future telescopes? As telescope technology advances it will we interesting to see what we will be able to see in the future. Below is a picture of the small patch of sky that contained the massive amount of galaxies in the Hubbles ultra deep field images.
The video below is by Stephen Hawking. It is an great video that will give you some insight into how big the universe is and what things are posable.