Full size version of pic 1: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/screen/heic1214a.jpg
Full size version of pic 2: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/large/heic1214a.jpg
Full size version of pic 2: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/large/heic1214a.jpg
Hahaha. No it's a recent picture taken with a 23 hour exposure. Because of how long it takes the light from distant galaxies to reach us, this picture is the equivalent of looking several billion years in the past. Some of the galaxies in that picture may have been destroyed a billion years ago.
Here's something space related that I thought was very cool. "How to get to Mars." What really went into getting there. Pretty remarkable technology.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/XRCIzZHpFtY?rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/embed/XRCIzZHpFtY?rel=0
Actually this is wrong. Both Edwin Hubble and Einstein discovered that the
universe is not infinite in space and time.
Hubble discovered it in the 1920's with his 100-inch Hooker Telescope on Mount Wilson near Pasadena, CA.
Einstein discovered it mathematically, but didn't like the conclusions that it
implied (the universe had a beginning, and has a cause), so he made up
a "cosmological constant" which allowed his equations to work in a static
universe.
Once he saw the expanding universe in Hubble's telescope in 1929, he
admitted that his "cosmological constant" was the worst blunder of his
career.
