Amazing Deep Field Objects video with 3D distance rendering

[padren]

Really cool video of the farthest images from Hubble, with distances calculated to show in moving 3D. Some decent coverage of expansion I think:

 

[Severian]

Strangely, the video is wrong about the original motivation for pointing the telescope at the black patch of space. They did it for calibration reasons, not because they wanted to find anything, which I think makes it even more incredible.

[Airbrush]

Fascinating clip! What I gathered was they said they could see 10,000 galaxies in a region of space as large as a grain of sand held at arm's length. Is that correct? Did they say the galaxies were 47 Billion ly away? I think that is wrong. The furthest galaxies or quasars visible are around 30 Billion ly. The CMB is at about 45 Billion ly.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Strangely, the video is wrong about the original motivation for pointing the telescope at the black patch of space. They did it for calibration reasons, not because they wanted to find anything, which I think makes it even more incredible.

Really? Looking at the original paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607632), the authors state that "It was evident that a deep field with the new capabilities of Hubble following the installation of the ACS could address several important issues in early galaxy formation" and discuss the forming of a committee to recommend the specific details of the Ultra Deep Field image. But I'm no astronomer...

 

Not that this makes the image any less incredible. It certainly gives you some perspective on the universe...

[DJBruce]

I found that video to be amazing, not only are the images incredibly interesting, but I found the movie to be incredible moving.

[Severian]

Really? Looking at the original paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607632), the authors state that "It was evident that a deep field with the new capabilities of Hubble following the installation of the ACS could address several important issues in early galaxy formation" and discuss the forming of a committee to recommend the specific details of the Ultra Deep Field image. But I'm no astronomer...

 

Heh - the first thing you do when you write a paper, is tell everyone what a great idea you had, which led to this paper. They are not going to tell you that it was unintentional - it was entirely down to their genius.

[Airbrush]

Is there ANY region in the sky where we can see only empty void, all the way out to the edge of our visual horizon? Or do they need to do a long-term Hubble image of any possible "empty" region to make sure 10,000 galaxies are not hiding there?