Re: [GZG] HST Ultra Deep Field video

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animation sweep into/out of the Ultra Deep Field is a three
minute long video narrated by Barbara Feldon (Agent 99 for those of you
who
don't know). I have the dvd buried somewhere at home. Tony's youtube vid
below provides more context and observing history by including the
original
Deep Field image.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e02aB49TFUA

If you want to read about the background and making of the video, and
then
download your own copy of the movie, go here:

http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/exhibits/largefilm/

Download warning: the video over 600MB in size.

Mk

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg
>
> Next time you need to align your sense of your own importance, this
> video should help. Hubble has once again given us perspective on our
> place in the universe.
>
> 1E19 suns in the universe (est).
> Furthest galaxy 4.7E7 light years away, receding faster than light.
> 1E11 galaxies in the universe (est).
>
> Our sun is one in ten quintillion other suns. We're one in six billion
> humans thereon. Try to even vaguely appreciate how small we are.
>
> Carl Sagan, you've got to be right. Douglas Adams, you have no idea
> how right you were.
>
> --
> http://ante-aurorum-tenebrae.blogspot.com/
> http://www.stargrunt.ca
>
> "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy
> from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a
> precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
>
> "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of
> liberty quits the horizon." -- Thomas Paine
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