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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the farthest-ever view into the universe, a photo that reveals thousands of galaxies billions of light-years away.
The picture, called eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, combines 10 years of Hubble telescope views of one patch of sky. Only the accumulated light gathered over so many observation sessions can reveal such distant objects, some of which are one ten-billionth the brightness that the human eye can see.
http://www.space.com/17755-farthest-universe-view-hubble-space-telescope.html

Hubble Telescope Reveals Deepest View of Universe Ever | Space.com

The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the farthest view into the unvierse yet, an Extreme Deep Field image that reveals 5,500 galaxies dating back 13.2 billion years into the universe's past. NASA released the new Hubble survey on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

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Art a Day

I want to go....

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Damon (with reference to Astronomy) 6th Aug 2012

A planet four times the size of Earth may be skirting the edges of the solar system beyond Pluto, according to new research. Too distant to be easily spotted by Earth-based telescopes, the unseen planet could be gravitationally tugging on small icy objects past Neptune, helping explain the mystery of those objects' peculiar orbits.
The claim comes from Rodney Gomes, a noted astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
http://www.space.com/15822-planet-edge-solar-system.html

Planet X? New Evidence of an Unseen Planet at Solar System's Edge | Space.com

An astronomer has proposed the existence of an unseen planet in the distant outskirts of the solar system. It would explain the peculiar motions of Kuiper belt objects.

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HoNey

thanks a lot

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Ashok 18th Sep 2011

HOW BIG IS THE UNIVERSE ?

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Paulo Alexandre

not measurable

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Anudyuti (with reference to Astronomy, Astrology) 1st Oct 2011

ASTRONOMY HAS TWO SECTIONS ONE IS ASTROLOGY OTHER IS GAZING AT STARS AND SKY. BOTH ARE INTERESTING BUT 1ST IS THEORITICAL

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Anudyuti

BEING A POST GRADUATE IN CHEMISTRY I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT U HV 2 SAY BUT ASTRO SCIENCE HAS YET TO BE DEVELOPED ON SCIENTIFIC ANGLE. ANCIENT BHRIGU HAD CALCULATED ALL POSSIBLE PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS AND GIVEN PREDICTIONS. THE SC CAN BE UNDERSTOOD FROM THERE. RESEARCH.......

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RahuL 14th Nov 2011

What is the aim of life?

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Rafael Bejarano

Obviously, fire is not a life form: it's just plasma (totally ionized gas).

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OD.k 9th Aug 2011

other worlds

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Zaki

I would also like some true experiences to be shared by anybody regarding BERMUDA mystery????

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Damon (with reference to Astronomy, IT) 6th Dec 2011

NASA discovers Earth-like planet
In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA says its Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. French astronomers earlier this year confirmed the first exoplanet to meet key requirements for sustaining life, but Kepler 22b, initially glimpsed in 2009, is the first the US space agency has been able to confirm. Confirmation means that astronomers have seen it crossing in front of its star three times. But it doesn't mean that astronomers know whether life actually exists there.

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Rafael Bejarano

If only 1/10.000 stars has a planet, 1/10.000 planets is a planet in the inhabitable region of its star, 1/10.000 of these planets has life and 1/10.000 of these life forms is an "upper intelligent life"... There'd be around one million planets with intelligent life, at least...
What is the same that saying that, in this hypothetic case, there are around one million civilizations a least into known Universe.
With the only probability of these facts, I'm sure not only that we're not alone but, in additions of this, we are only one in a big number of civilizations into Universe, even though this number wasn't so big that the million.
;-) 8-)

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