So, here is a picture that I came across while searching on my geology classes website. It was published and stolen off of the Astronomy Picture of the Day website for June 7, 1998. The explanation given for the picture said this,
"Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Deep Field - humanity's most distant yet optical view of the Universe. The dimmest, some as faint as 30th magnitude (about four billion times fainter than stars visible to the unaided eye), are the most distant galaxies and represent what the Universe looked like in the extreme past, perhaps less than one billion years after the Big Bang. To make the Deep Field image, astronomers selected an uncluttered area of the sky in the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Bear) and pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a single spot for 10 days accumulating and combining many separate exposures. With each additional exposure, fainter objects were revealed. The final result can be used to explore the mysteries of galaxy evolution and the infant Universe."
So, pretty much they aimed the amazing telescope at the darkest part of the sky, which they thought was absent of all light, and they thought nothing existed out there, for ten days straight. When they recieved the results back, then they discovered they were quite wrong.
Look at all the pretty lights. The picture kinda reminds me of a tray of assorted candies (like the explanation said). But in my mind, these pretty candies are on a sinister, very black looking tray upon which I might not totally trust the host who was serving me on October 30th...
Razor blades and drugs! Razor blades and drugs! Isn't that what they told us???
Augh! Who am I fooling? Of course I'd take the blasted candies. As Halloween is quickly approaching, I'd thought I'd share this sweet pic with you. It fucking rocks. By the way, the link to the pic site above totally kicks ass. I know the resolution of this pic isn't the greatest, but what could you expect from a region so far away and dark that we thought it was empty. The rest of the pictures are pretty nifty though. Check 'em out if you got a sec.
Peace out peoples,
-sib-

ps... These pics do not help what-so-ever in boosting my already paranoid feelings of insignificance... *sigh*