jtotheizzoe: Hubble Goes Back In Tiiiiiime If I may: Some recommended listening to accompany this post. Over the course of 50 days, and a total exposure time of 2 million seconds, the Hubble Space Telescope captured the above image. This eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) view is like visual time travel, revealing galaxies so distant that the light that made the image was released 13.2 BILLION years ago. That was only about 500 million years after the Big Bang! This image only contains about 5,500 galaxies because its field of view was so much smaller, and many of them are very young in this image. This means that we can use it to gain clues to how things were churning and forming in the Olde Days of the Universe. I stared at this for several minutes, and was awed by two thoughts: How many of these don’t even exist anymore? How many stars just like ours are inside of each one? Tour a hi-res image here, and share in the wow. (via HubbleSite) Reality. Always more mind blowing than anything if you take the time to look.
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Hubble Goes Back In Tiiiiiime

If I may: Some recommended listening to accompany this post.

Over the course of 50 days, and a total exposure time of 2 million seconds, the Hubble Space Telescope captured the above image. This eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) view is like visual time travel, revealing galaxies so distant that the light that made the image was released 13.2 BILLION years ago.

That was only about 500 million years after the Big Bang! This image only contains about 5,500 galaxies because its field of view was so much smaller, and many of them are very young in this image. This means that we can use it to gain clues to how things were churning and forming in the Olde Days of the Universe.

I stared at this for several minutes, and was awed by two thoughts: How many of these don’t even exist anymore? How many stars just like ours are inside of each one?

Tour a hi-res image here, and share in the wow.

(via HubbleSite)

Reality. Always more mind blowing than anything if you take the time to look.

theatlantic:

In Focus: Hubble’s Hidden Treasures

Last March, the operators of the Hubble Space Telescope launched a competition, inviting amateur astronomers to dig into hundreds of thousands of images of outer space, helping discover hidden treasures and bring them to light. Yesterday, NASA and the European Space Agency announced the winners in both categories: image processing, where entrants composed their own images based on Hubble data, and image search, where entrants simply uncovered amazing images not previously released.

See more. [Images: NASA/ESA, Josh Lake, Andre van der Hoeven, Luca Limatola, Ralf Schoofs]

This is so incredible, you can’t not be changed when looking at this.

(via quantumaniac)

Source: The Atlantic

Awesome.

Just put in my two weeks at my primary job, a job I’ve worked at for five years. Leaving to take up a position with Cord Media in Palm Desert to take care of the web work for their accounts. This is what I want to be doing.

Incredibly excited to start in on what I want to be doing full time. Hard work pays off.

Meanwhile, the work on the side continues to go and go…

I love it all. Okay. Getting back off Tumblr and back to work for the night.

jtotheizzoe:

Can you guys get enough time-lapse videos of the Transit of Venus?

I sure hope not, because here’s another one. Probably the best one. These views are courtesy of NASA’s amazing Solar Dynamics Observatory, the most advanced solar research spacecraft ever made.

Oh man, the colors … I know they are filters, but it’s like an ethereal lake of pure fire swallowing a tiny black pill.

(by NASAexplorer)

Best, and favorite video. It’s incredible what we can see when we take the time to build, think, and look.

The Naive Optimist: Hitting 40 employees and going vanilla

ryanleecarson:

We’re just about to hit 40 full-time employees at Treehouse and I’ve noticed that the urge to go “vanilla” is pretty strong.

As companies grow they seem to have a natural tendency to move from creative, fun and adventurous cultures to safe, systemitized “vanilla” cultures. They’re safe and…

The CEO of Treehouse, a membership site dedicated to teaching web design and development, has some sharp ideas about business leadership and culture- a lot of what I’ve come to desire in jobs that I’ve worked. Definitely an awesome attitude that is the best for a forward thinking tech and creativity team.

jtotheizzoe: uselaine: Solar eclipse projected through the ‘pinholes’, made by oak leaves, on my shed door. The tiny gaps between each leaf act as individual pinhole cameras, morphing the shadows of the tree with projections of the obscured sun. Next eclipse, you can witness this yourself, or even replicate it by crossing your fingers over on another in a waffle patter. Ok. Maybe this one is my favorite. Wow.
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uselaine:

Solar eclipse projected through the ‘pinholes’, made by oak leaves, on my shed door.

The tiny gaps between each leaf act as individual pinhole cameras, morphing the shadows of the tree with projections of the obscured sun. Next eclipse, you can witness this yourself, or even replicate it by crossing your fingers over on another in a waffle patter.

Ok. Maybe this one is my favorite.

Wow.

Source: uselaine

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