One of my inspirations for starting this website came from the
profound experience I had when looking at the Hubble Deep Field
images for the first time. I felt I was looking at the most
important image humanity had ever taken. It was important
because for the first time, I got a real feeling for just how
immense the universe actually is. It's absolutely mind-blowing
if you stop to think about it, that by looking at a patch of sky
that appears to have nothing in it, and you stare at it long
enough, you see an image full of galaxies. To fully convey how I
feel about the Deep Field images, I composed the following
video: An astute viewer (such as yourself) may have asked, "How
can the universe be 78 billion light years across when the age
of the universe is only about 13 billion years?" Astronomers
applied redshifts to all galaxies in the HUDF and made this: The
Hubble Deep Field in 3D Good question, how can something be
larger than then distance travelled at the speed of light? Since
light from the beginning o