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Location, Location, Location: What I Learned This Week

  • Somewhere in New York's midtown Park Avenue's street numbers reboot ​and start over. Which means that on a busy day it is possible to find yourself at the right address but the wrong location. 
The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region in the constellation Ursa Major, constructed from a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers an area 2.5 arcminutes across, about one 24-millionth of the whole sky, which is equivalent in angular size to a 65 mm tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres. The image was assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over ten consecutive days between December 18 and December 28, 1995.  
  • While having dinner with friends we began to discuss the Higs Boson discovery and science in general. ​The conversation then moved to astronomy and the Hubble Deep Field. In the image above all those 3000 bright and not so bright objects are other galaxies.