Yes, Lindsay snapped this photo of herself the other day in a green sports bra but really, that was just the click-bait tease! The image below is the AMAZING payoff. The Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field – is more than beautiful, it begins to fill in the gaps in our understanding of how stars actually form. This new image, a compilation of shots taken during the course of 841 orbits of Hubble between 2003 and 2012, contains roughly 10,000 galaxies. Says astronomer Phil Plait:
“The galaxies show every possible shape and size. Many are distorted, victims of collisions with other galaxies, their mutual gravity pulling them into weird shapes like taffy quadrillions of kilometers across. Many are very blue, showing active star formation, while others are exceedingly red, probably galaxies much farther away, their light taking far longer to reach us. Note that most of the very red galaxies are smaller dots, another indication of their tremendous distance.”
Named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, the Hubble Space Telescope is a venture of NASA and the European Space Agency. It was launched in 1990 and has been giving us amazing images like this ever since. Watch the animated zoom in of the galaxies so very far, far away – and wonder what Lindsay is doing right now…?
(Lindsay photo, Instagram; via Huffington Post)
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