Happy Holidays and a happy and healthy 2009!

...which reminds me of the two fleas on the back of the dog arguing about who owned the dog.

Simply amazing, infinite and universal THANKS God and the Stars bless you!

To # 263... How does the "Most High" show you the way? What decisions does he/she make for you? Might it be that you are making decisions on your own and choose to frame them as direction from the "most high" to make yourself feel more comfortable with your path? Please note that I am a firm believer in a higher power and I see evidence of he/she in many places. I just don't understand how one person telling others to take direction from a higher power accomplishes anything. unless you think god speaks directly to us, what you really want us to do is make choices that are like yours so that you can feel validated as a person. All organized religion is about people feeling validated and not about god.

Recordemos que todos somos parte del cosmos y el cosmos es parte de cada uno de nosotros.
Fluir en armonía con el universo hace que el universo entero conspire a nuestro favor.
Gracias por estas bellas fotografías.

There's gotta be lives up there ... the odds have it ... some more advanced than us, some less but then, who's measuring? .... only our egos cause us to think otherwise! It's got nothing to do with whether there's a deity or not!

nosssa muito interessante todas essas imagens.,..
parabens....

Great pictures. Yes, amen to #245, brother! And curiously, it seems like only the religious freaks are the ones arguing here. Hmmm.....

God is.

Excellent comment #245, thanks. After viewing these extraordinary images, I took a moment to view Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot on youtube again. Reading his quote here was great, but there's something special in actually listening to him speak it.

@ 291, i agree with the first part of your comment, but the second part i found rather condiscending. as a very religious person myself, and future missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (serving in Fort Lauderdale, Florida speaking spanish as of February 4th, 09) I believe in the principle of teaching. Not debate (though i realize our sometime rather irrational minds lead us to that, even when we mean not to.) in the bible, and through the study of it you may find two doctrines:

1. That God wants us to know that "He's the boss" and much bigger than us in the Grand Scheme of things; that heaven is our ultimate goal and nothing else really matters,

and 2. That Christ often taught in parables and drew parallels to help us understand.
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If so, I believe both of these come together to show what the Universe really is (concerning "The pale dot"): That we (represented by Earth) are, truly just noting when compared to The Almighty (represented by the Universe). Isn't it humbling to know that despite our seeming insignicant there is an ultimate God who cares for us each individually?

I myself KNOW there is a God who cares for me. NOT because someone told me, or explained it through reasoning, but because my Heavenly Father, through His Holy Spirit, revealed the truthfulness of it unto me, and therefore i harbor no doubt in my mind of the truthfulness of these things; else why would i give up two years of my life at 19 to go out and preach it to the world?

the comment immediately before mine (331) stated it simply: "god is;" and why His Son, Jesus Christ, created this universe and all of it's wonders matters not to me. the only thing that matters is that He did it and that my only reason for being alive is to serve Him Whole heartedly. even to death.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Son imagenes preciosas a la par que intrigantes.

Thank you so much for this fabulous Christmas gift! I was dazzled daily. Sure hope you do this again. Do we love the Hubble or what?!

Kiitos hienoista kuvista!

The atheists have the biggest amount of faith here.

I mean honestly, to look at these pictures and this it happened by chance... a big bang... I don't know how they do it.

Go read the Bible. Then look at these pictures

Absolutely stunning collection of images. I will have facinating desktop backgrounds for years to come. Well done, thank you very much.

Truly amazing and incredible! ....thankfully we don't inhabit the universe otherwise it would be pretty well trashed like our 'pale blue dot'

Mais uma vez podemos dizer que Giordano Bruno tinha razão.

@333 - The Bible authors claim that the world is a flat circle (Isaiah 40:22, the Hebrew word 'chug' CANNOT mean spherical in the context used). This flat world was immovable (1 Chronicles 16:30). The sky was solid (Job 37:18) with the sun, moon and stars affixed to this solid sky dome (Genesis 1:16-17). The sky dome existed to keep out the waters of the upper heavens (Genesis 1:6), with windows to allow rain and the flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-12). Never let the truth get in the way of a good sermon.

Fabulouse photographs

Thank you for this beautiful gift

TAB~

OMG

@ 341 how do you even know that in Isaiah 40:22 "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth" is even making a reference to the matter of the dimensionality of the earth? from reading the surrounding verses the reference is actually supporting my argument: in 18: To whom then will ye liken god... and then in 22 , "he" is God and the inhabitants, the grasshoppers, are being compared to us. You are also taking chronicles too literally. in fact, it is speaking in future tense here, if you want to take it literally, it implies the earth will become immovable in the future, thus implying that it moves at the current time this scripture was written. And with job, i don't even know where you get that the sky is solid. it says "hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and AS a looking glass?" this is obviously a mere simily, and this chapter is talking about God's control over the elements... if god wanted i'm sure he could make the atmosphere freeze over and become solid, heh.also, the verses 16-17 in genisis 1 make no reference to this dome, but that "God set them in the firmament of heaven" nothing there suggests them staying in one place or being affixed to one spot rotating around the earth.(firmamant meaning the atmosphere or the sidereal of heavens depending on the context). then in verse 6, the firmament dividing waters from waters is not any dome. (see firmament definition above). and again in noah you take the verse far too literally. and finally, for you further interest, see Helamen 12:15 in the Book of Mormon, which states that "...Surely it is the earth that moveth and not the sun."

I hope this helps you see my point of veiw. also, please note that neither of us will ever convince the other of the others point without a way to find which is true for sure. who knows what man can find the truth? But surely God knows all and will reveal all if you but ask in his son's name, if it be true, and i promise you, if you ask with real intent, having faith in the Lord god, it shall be revealed unto you.

I like what Bob Marley said about it. "We're sick and tired of the ism schism game, died and gone to heaven lord in Jesus name. We know when we understand the mighty God is a living man". Thats it, enjoy eternity whether you believe it or not.

I too have loved these photographs, but as pure science - why term it an advent calendar. Why sully the secular nature of scientific achievement with religious rhetoric?

Carl Sagan was a great human being who truly understood the sheer mass of our universe as few can. His writing, however it is taken, is a gemstone in the crown of mankind.

Oh Gott
welch einen fantastischen Einblick bekommen wir.
und was für ein wunderschönes kleines blaues Sternchen ist unsere Erde
Ein Sandkorn im Universum, auf dem sich einige Verrückte, Geld und Machtpolitisch die Köpfe einhauen. Welche Kleingeister!
Gebt Euch die Hände und macht Frieden auf dieser Welt.
Gesegnete Zeit und Friede auf Erden. Erdling Horst

There is no time, there is no space
there is nothing like the human race
insignificant though we are, we dream and search
for truth afar
someday we'll find it on Earth under a star.

vamos morrer '0'

#302 GOD IS AMAZING
Posted by an EIGHT year old. You must wonder why and how an eight year old would have the reasoning and understanding to be convinced of a creator. The same reason Charles Darwin, originally a religous man and often (incorrectly) believed to be the father of the theory of evolution, invalidated religion in his mind - because children are often indoctinated with it from the word go. Perceptions and beliefs are often frivolous.

In my eyes, people get comfort, reason and an increased sense of significance from their religious beliefs (I do wonder how many religious people have treuly read the Old Testament - there is some quite horrific content). My issue with religion is why would such an almighty creator provide humans with free will and then sentence them to damnation when they question their existance or deny it - this would be hugely hypocritical. If one exists, then we are what they made us!

These images are phenominal! The mind boggles with the possibilities!

Pika pika!

I remembered someone had sent me a link to these photos early in December, but I forgot to check back daily. I just went through all of them and am in awe. Though I know the actual universe does not appear this way, these are absolutely beautiful photos. They gave me a wonderful feeling.

Then I read the comments from adults who should have learned how to let other people have their own opinions by now. I'm not looking forward to living on the same planet as you guys for the rest of my life.

Awesome (a very overrused word) pictures. It's things like this that make me want to believe in a God. I particularly like the 'little pale blue dot' link at the end, a fitting footnote to a wonderful show.
Carl Sagan is absolutely correct.
And to anyone who still believes in organised religion (of any kind), your God may forgive you for all the needless suffering inflicted on countless billions of people throughout the ages, (and it's still happening in this day and age!) but you do not have my support or respect. Peace.

These are ..... well, words just don't go there. 'Impressively Unimaginable' is the best I can do.
Or, as Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) in Contact said:

"No - no words. No words to describe it.
Poetry! They should've sent a poet.
So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea."

And two more delightful and pertinent quotes from the same movie:

[Dr. Ellie Arroway to a group of children:] "I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?"

[And the mysterious apparition to Dr. Arroway:] "You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other"

This is a great staff! I love the world!

What is behind of these wonderful galaxies?

Praise to Allah SWT for the Creation

Why must everyone read something into these pictures. Look at them, enjoy them and be awe struck. they are magnificent.

THIS is why we study space-and NEED NASA.

Thank you scientist people that you've made possible to me to see such wonder !
Your are the only people to receive my infinte admiration, the rest of "human stars"are just rubish ! Why alltimes Einstein as long there is Friedman, Hubble, Heissenberg, Gromow, Max Plank, Dirac, Cantor, Poincaire, and a lot of such beyound imaginations genius people. Thenk you all !
Thank you , too
Alex. S

I wish people would just stop arguing about whether there is an explanation or whether God has a part in it or not. Everyone has their own beliefs. COEXIST people! some things do not need explaining. just enjoy it.

Poor old God.... always at the heart of a squabble. If there is a God I imagine he/she/it is pretty fed up with us by now.
Wonderful pictures, so easy on the eyes.
I enjoyed them, thank you.

hi my friends

Awesome pictures -- too bad the Hubble will not be up there a lot longer (if i understand correctly)
Regardless of what you believe, i believe that a group of intelligent human beings (this includes the funding, political will etc, even the tax paying public) launched an amazing device that brought our Universe into sharper focus for all of us -- thank them if you want to thank anyone!

MORE!!!

Being part of the Universe puts everything in perspective, ...especially if you have ever reflected about a grain of sand on a Beach! ...Just appreciate the moment, enjoy the aura, and realise that all man-made problems are of little significance in the 'greater scheme' of existence!

I love these pics.

i like these pictures allot. but what albert eienstein says. he demanted there was a creator and we will never know him or see him .

it stands as " the creator doesn't know that we are here " ..

i think it goes like this when the creator caused the big bang out of nothing .
this is what i believe what happened - creator took the quantum singularities formed it in energy and matter than took it and spinned and thats how it got to create the universe. if this is true than deism or pantheism is the truth religion.

hola,soy sole de argentina¡¡
y quiero contarles que me encantan las cosas q se tratan del espacio....me super interesan,...gracias por aver hacho esta pag¡¡
besuchos¡¡

Stop the madness and enjoy nature as it is. Even though they may be enhanced for better clarity, these images only make me, and I hope others, feel so profoundly insignificant that we should learn to get along regardless of race, color or creed. We all look up and see the same cosmos.

A creator put nature in motion. Sometimes we get in the way and most of the time we are just spectators. We are just along for the ride enjoy it while and when you can.

These images truly beg the question: Why are we here? The mysteries of the universe are Truths beyond our present understanding, beyond what even Science can grasp. And that is where God is. Science can only keep unravelling the infinite onion. God is within and without us.

God is a beautiful artist!!! His evidence is all around us...take a look outside your window and praise Him for what he made for us. Take a look at these breath-taking pictures and be in awe of God's power.
Praise God and his son, Jesus Christ!

Those are amazing photos NASA rock!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for these brilliant images. God's creation is not about to run out of new frontiers for mankind to explore any time soon. What next?

The thirteen image looks like a cow ._. , OIADHIAOHDIOADA

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

Pslam 8:3-4

Wow amazing pictures...I'm totally blown away by these images. Can't believe it actually is real... Greetings from Sweden

Somewhere out there is a cherry 1960 MGA for the right price...

Don't let yourselves feel too small after viewing pictures of the sky. Our eyes are required to appreciate these beauties. A speaker once concluded his lecture with: "So you see that astronomically speaking, man is utterly insignificant." A listener replied: "Professor, you forgot the most important thing, man is the astronomer."

"He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in." --Isaiah 40:22
How did Isaiah know that the Earth looks like a circle from space, think about that, also how did he predict Jesus so accurately?

Oh my God ! I don't believe the universe is so beautiful.

Love

Romio

Oh my God ! I don't believe the universe is so beautiful.

Love

Romio

It amazes me the simple arguments that go on between religious and atheist. Especially stuff like this, "Physics > Bible", which makes no sense at all. We are but just bits of sand on a beach, even less so. But yet, the ignorant still try to make an argument that they know best. And for your information, religion is not necessary to believe in the bible, or God.

1. Explain the end of the universe for me, explain the infinity of it, please.
2. Explain the creation of the universe without a doubt, please.
3. Answer to #3, Big Bang. Ok, what was before the big bang, please.
4. Explain to me, the perfection of mathematics, or paradoxes of quantum mechanics, please.

You simply can't because nobody here, or anywhere in this world is either smart , privileged, or wise enough to know these answers. God makes better sense than any theory of creation because SOMETHING had to exist before it all.

I love what a saw I can only imagine what lies beyond what we see.

I am doing an experiment on the Hubble Space Telescope. These pictures are amazing. Good job!

What a God we worship, The God of the Bible, who knows all stars, and call them by name. We must all stand before Him (Jesus) in judgment to give an account of our life. The only hope in the name of Jesus, His shed blood for all who call on Him & confess their sins.

in all eternity, this is your moment -- your only moment. And what you do with it is up to you.

If you guys are trying to measure the size of your c*cks by comparing religion and atheism..... hell, even trying to define something that is undefinable....
you're just missing the point
Love is strong,
And the god that we all know and love
will not be defined by your oppresive values.

Go back to eating, drinking and sleeping
It's all you'll truly know fleshbag.

These are beautiful pictures Mrs. Glazer. you just gotta love them.

The mystery of God surpasses all the beauty of the universe. How marvelous indeed must He be after viewing these photos.

How could anybody looking at these pictures deny the existence of God, I just don't understand it , they are beautiful, thankyou for letting us witness these, could you imagine what heaven must look like.

coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

masha'allah, praise be to Allah. To all of you all who are saying that this proves God does not exist, or that this bears to proof of God, are you all blind? Tell me, how does the discovery of these beautiful things prove anything about humans?if anything, this is sheer proof of the existence of God. True, scientists work hard and help us learn more about this world. but they are not the one's who created these beautiful objects in the sky. they found them, but they were made by someone else. no human could make such things, it must be a higher being. that is how we know God exists. there are so many miracles here. No simple human could create such things, only be amazed by them. God, who is much greater than all these great things, is the only one who could create such a beautiful world. praise be to Allah, may he guide us all and keep us safe.

Any one of these make a great picture for your background on your pc. We love the saturn pic.

After looking at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, you have to believe that somewhere out there, someone is looking back.

C est vraiment incroyable j adore.Merci pour la vision.

The picure are fantastic. They reveal, how infinetisimal we are in front of nature and make us realise the immense power of Nature/God.

Our perception of the universe is limited by our bodie's and mind's ability to percieve it. It's important to realize that whatever you "think" or "believe", isn't necessarily reality... what you believe to be "truth" today, becomes false when you get new information. Follow your own path, allow others to follow thiers... they all wind up at the same destination anyway. We are celestial beings, on a human journey... just enjoy it, learn from it, and keep your thoughts to yourself. After all, you may be wrong.

wow thats so awesome awesome pics thats so col keep putting more pics from the hubble telescope me and my buds are doing a report and it really helped us thnx a lot

This pictures are amazing i wonder who took this pictures

How lucky are we? To be in the same vicinity of space and time as these miraculous beings is truely special. Nature has blessed us, and may we never forget that.

Scientists, engineers, and politicians like to take credit for treasures such as Hubble. But it is taxpayers who made these wonderful pictures and incredible scientific discoveries possible so to each of you...thanks.

Our existance is in a snow globe within a snow globe. Thought on the other hand...

Now it's time for us to think who has created those? Someone will say this is nature? But who created the nature, Of course there is Someone Who is controlling everything. And He is none but the creator of all of us "ALLAH" The Almighty, The Sustainer, The Endless. Please don’t ask who crated ALLAH? (Nowjubillah) But if you want to know about ALLAH then think and know about his creatures.

"Please don’t ask who crated ALLAH? " Why not? I'm sure you can conjure up another fabricated story to answer this.

Religion and Science are two completely separate things. Science has what they call 'Evidence'. Religion does not.

Immagini stupende, e pensare che facciamo parte tutti noi di questo meraviglioso COSMO!!! Marybel.

I feel as if, i am the only one, who remembers, when the hubble was lost in space, and an eye went missing, into a black hole, yet transmittion came back to earth, with the image of heaven it self, and the light of which surrounded multipul beings, including that of God. I am not crazy, it did happen, and our Government has covered it up... Why? Is there anyone who remembers this? This would have been around 1999 or the year 2000 & I swear it was not a hoax & I do remember, but the world was not ready to accept or view this, so it was pulled from exsistance, But I know some one out there knows!! Remembers, or has the image & I am looking for it.

cool.

These images are truly remarkable. They really are. But what we are seeing can and has been explained by science right down to an actual event The big bang theory (which is still 'only a theory' and which is more vague in its reasoning than the explanations to what we see above but, given that the universe is still expanding from yet an unknown point, it certainly gives some credence to this theory). Everything after this event (per say) IS the result of NATURAL gaseous/heat/light exchange and other 'measurable' forces/ events - life on this plant for example CAN be explained because of our proximity to the sun and the resulting exchanges in gas and light and, Venus's proximity to the sun means there can be no life as we know it on that planet. This universe, like a leaf on the breeze has mapped out its own path which can and has only been perceived only very vaguely by us so far. The theory of how it all began however is so far fetched that us mere mortals only make further idiots of ourselves when trying to explain it using handed down religious doctrines and beliefs. Surely there was a catalyst needed to begin the process but whether that was A God or not NO-ONE can tell. Could there not have been many gods, a society full of superior beings working on a joint project? A couple of guys, girls or whatever wastin a bit of time before they went back to work???? This claim will surely never be validated by any Religious Institution because it would rob them of their wealth and jurisitictions but goddamn it holds as much weight as any of the arguments I've read above.. Please don’t harp on about Supposed people’s ie. God that you have read about in books that were written by people of limited knowlage of the universe who through (might I add) carefully wording of their prose could and still do control not only countries but whole continents at a time by claiming that they knew the maker of this beautiful life. What an achievement on their behalf.

What we see above is beauty but it is only nature. If you want to thank anyone/thing for the above thank light/gas/heat/time.

God..
Well that’s for a different day.

I find it so much more interesting to think of everything in those photos as the result of random occurance/chaos theory, whatever you want to call it.

The Big Bang, the super element that allowed for > light speed expansion, everything in those images, created because for just a tiny moment in time, all the factors were in place.

Nobody can say that that is impossible. It's impossible to know whether it's impossible or not. And until that's known, you cannot say it isn't possible.

IT LOOKS SO PRETTY!?! I LOVE IT, IT REMINDS ME OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL I KNOW!!!!

It is unbelievable, which POWER is hidden in these some coloured pictures, if more then 410 comments before this one, word for word singing about peace and love...!? Somethink like singing for you, God...
I can`t believe and understand, that can be a possible, how much crimes and cruelty humans doing, every day.

We are all conditionned by the material and psychic prints left by what and those that were close of us or that were preceding us: it leads to individual and cultural differentiation.

Beside this everybody is identical except some genetical differences coming from the past.

Religions are only ancestral cultural traditions, and each culture has his own beliefs

Humans created gods that exists only in their minds. Nobody can say there's one nor there's none. Some questions have no reply and we must live with it.

Most believers are only followers.

Mind is basically not made for something else than survival.

What a wonderfull universe !

@404 my thoughts exactly. religion has no evidence. science does. science shows what it can. religion cannot. Regardless if we just look at the photos, the sky, and ourselves. We will see.

It seems relevant to me that this awesome beauty can only be fully appreciated from great distance and that the most destructive forces in the universe are little more than enormous gasbags. Just look at the Great Unfathomable and know that you are of it and keep your provincial theologies to yourselves.

Very nice site!

MAGNIFIC PICTURES...CONGRATULATIONS...

Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Esteio City

What's truly significant with the Pale Blue Dot photo, it not the photo itself, but the technology humankind has harnessed to place the camera 4 billion miles away, AND transmit the image back to the Pale Blue Dot.

245 and all who agrees with......It will be very shocking for you to find out, at that time would be too late for you, that God really exists...jut look at these breathtaking images. Just the beauty of God and his by AWESOME creations would clearly tell you that He exists. If 'we created God' why do you not see any of these images being created by man? That alone tells that His ways and thoughts are much higher and greater than ours. Praise God for He lives YESTERDAY, TODAY, & FOREVER!!!!

I loved all of the pitures

Why the Human being-that evolved from single cell creatures thru millions of years of evolution assume that a great heavenly intelligent designer created the vastness of all that is. To be put in his likeness and sent his son here to love us - is nothing short of insulting and purely stupid on a level that I guess the only way to have at least a semblence of reason to it is assume thats how it must work to give a comfort factor to the brain of a species that has developed over time as all living creatures that were created in the stew of life with the simplicity as simple as baking a cake. I am truly humbeled by the photos- that are here because of the slow cooking of ions of time to bring about the majesty of the human mind no creator or supposed God Guy could even bring about such wonder as we are now able to do with our developement over the 100's of millions of years to be rewarded with the ability in this day and age to see how truly wonderful it is to now have the pieces of human developement at its ultimate fineness to give us the universe as our reward is absolutely Breathtaking

As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become...this is the great secret. We are the offspring of a God, with a potential to create in the distant future as seen in these pictures. This is who we really are.

To know God is life eternal.

We have discovered the truth of many physical laws through measurement and observation and we call it science. There are yet more truths to be discovered by some, and already discovered by others which are also learned by experiment and observation, yet differ from the process of aquiring truth about physical laws in that it does require sincerity, humility, an open heart and sometimes patience.

This additional truth seeking process as well as many other truths are taught plainly and simply within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and is available to all.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Yes, it may look like a pale blue dot from far away, but our ultimate potential within each of us could not be brighter!

With love and respect to all who read..

Espetacular. Magnífico. Esplêndido. Incomparavelmente belo, lindo e inacreditável imaginar a beleza da natureza. Somente DEUS pode fazer assim