06 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Size of the Universe in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo
Facts About the Hubble Ultra Deep Field > Summary > Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) photograph
The technical details followed by Chet Raymo's summary of how the photo demonstrates just how incredibly vast is our Cosmos.
Folksonomies: astronomy,universe,cosmos,summary,scale,hubble,photo

12 JUN 2011 by ideonexus If Seeing the Stars was a Rarity
If the Stars Only Came Out One Night in 1,000 Years > Similarity > If We Only Saw the Stars One Night Every 100 Years
Emerson and Carson both imagine a world where the stars are not something perpetually overhead, where humanity would not take them so easily for granted.
Folksonomies: wonder,astronomy,stars,milky way,galaxy,universe,cosmos