Saturday, 17 November 2012

So many wishes


So much superstition

And...

 after first posting that image all those wishes reminded me of something...


The Hubble Deep Field views of many ancient galaxies (photo by NASA), back to 13.3 billion light years away



The farthest known galaxy in the universe... is observed (as it was) 420 million years after the big bang, when the universe was 3 percent of its present age of 13.7 billion years. (Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Postman and D. Coe (STScI), and the CLASH Team)
Funny how looking at coins in a wishing well took my thoughts so far.
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5 comments:

  1. Syncopated Eyeball18 November 2012 at 09:52

    Hey, Andrew, this post, the one before and the one after all really appeal to me.
    So cool how the coins reminded you of the stars and then you showed us.

    Very, erm, nice. :)

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  2. Andrew MacLaren-Scott18 November 2012 at 10:52

    Thanks Syncy

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  3. CherryPie18 November 2012 at 22:59

    The leaves, coins and ancient galaxies have a similar feel about them.

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  4. Andrew MacLaren-Scott19 November 2012 at 00:53

    They do.

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  5. Claude19 November 2012 at 01:58

    Thank you so much for your thoughts and the Hubble link, which I could share on Facebook.

    We might be nothing but we are big enough to glimpse far beyond us. If we could only do this between Earthlings, we might learn to get along.

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