{"id":1148,"date":"2011-01-04T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2011-02-18T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:15:15","slug":"seeing-far-into-the-heavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2011\/01\/04\/seeing-far-into-the-heavens\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Far Into the Heavens"},"content":{"rendered":"

We thought we’d start the new year with something truly awesome. So here’s a photo of \u00a0a section of the Eagle Nebula<\/a> taken by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. What’s truly awesome is that this collection of stars \u2013 NGC 6611 \u2013 is\u00a06,500 light-years<\/em> from Earth. That’s an inconceivable distance, at least to most of us. Yet the Hubble sends back a gorgeous photo of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Yes,\u00a0the Hubble<\/a> is still at it, in its 21st year of \u00a0providing mind-boggling photographs from outer space. \u00a0In this image, dark patches that appear to be nothingness “are actually very dense regions of gas and dust, which obstruct light from passing through.” \u00a0So the Hubble provides evidence of ethereal neighborhoods where the lights are truly out. Astounding!<\/p>\n

(Dennis Owen notes that the italics above are “chump change. Hubble can see several billion light years into space.” True enough. Here’s a report from last fall<\/a> on the space telescope looking back to light from a galaxy that took 13.1 billion light years<\/em> to reach Earth, from a time when the universe was “just” 600 million years old. And we note that Hubble is due to be replaced in 2014 by the James Webb Space Telescope, which will “see much farther back in time.” To what, we can only wonder.) \u2013\u00a0Doug Bedell<\/em><\/p>\n


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We thought we’d start the new year with something truly awesome. So here’s a photo of \u00a0a section of the Eagle Nebula taken by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. What’s truly awesome is that this collection of stars \u2013 NGC 6611 \u2013 is\u00a06,500 light-years from Earth. That’s an inconceivable distance, at least to most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}