Deepest picture of space ever taken

Revealing the Universe: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have created the deepest multi-color^* image of the Universe ever taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field, a mind-blowing glimpse into the vast stretches of our cosmos.

Check. This. Out.

Yegads. [Click to cosmosenate, or grab the bigger 2400 x 2100 pixel version.]

This image is the combined total of over 2000 separate images, and the total exposure is a whopping two million seconds, or 23 days! It’s based on the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field, with new observations added in since the originals were done. It shows over 5500 galaxies – nearly everything you see in the picture is a galaxy, an island universe of billions of stars. Only a handful of individual stars in the foreground of our own galaxy can be seen.

Here’s some detail from the image:

The variety of galaxies is amazing. Some look like relatively normal spirals and ellipticals, but you can see some that are clearly distorted due to interactions – collisions on a galactic scale! – and others that look like galaxy fragments. These may very well be baby galaxies caught in the act of forming, growing. The most distant objects here are over 13 billion light years away, and we see them when they were only 500 million years old.

In case your head is not asplodey from all this, I’ll note that the faintest objects in this picture are at 31st magnitude: the faintest star you can see with your naked eye is ten billion times brighter.

So, yeah.

I’ll note that the purpose of this and the other deep field images is to look as far away and as far back in time as we can to see what the Universe was like when it was young. The wealth of data and scientific knowledge here cannot be overstated.

But I suspect, in the long run, the importance of this and the other pictures will be their impact on the public consciousness. We humans, our planet, our Sun, our galaxy, are so small as to be impossible to describe on this sort of scale, and that’s a good perspective to have.

But never forget: we figured this out. Our curiosity led us to build bigger and better telescopes, to design computers and mathematics to analyze the images from those devices, and to better understand the Universe we live in.

And it all started with simply looking up. Always look up, every chance you get. There’s a whole Universe out there waiting to be explored.

Metronomy—My Heart Rate Rapid

Metronomy—My Heart Rate Rapid:
Metronomy – My Heart Rate Rapid (Unofficial Music Video) from Claustr&Phobia on Vimeo.



The lovely AnatomyUK turned me on to Metronomy not too long ago, which I’ve enjoyed quite a bit. I recently discovered this unofficial music directed and edited by Claustr & Phobia (Veronic H. & Flavie J.) that features them manipulating a calf heart in many astonishing ways.

[spotted by Halbrey Veronic]

Eat Your Heart Out Anatomical Cocktails

Eat Your Heart Out Anatomical Cocktails:

Urine’ cocktail in sample bottle, offered warm

Charred Remains made from vodka and Jack Daniels with a crispy meat garnish

Stomach Contents contains the perfect teenage diet of chocolate pieces and skittles, the drink garnished with empty pill casings. A shot of absinthe on the top will be reflective of the green hue of stomach bile.

Stool Sample being a creamy drink with cocoa, strawberry syrup & fudge pieces used to give the medically correct consistency of a sample.

Sanitizer cocktail is designed to cleanse your palette.

Fat comes with a solid fatty layer on top made from melted white chocolate

Are you up for the challenge of trying out these disgustingly delicious cocktails at this years Eat Your Heart Out cake shop at St. Bart’s Pathology Museum hapenning October 26–28, 2012 in London?  EYHO is put on by the lovely Miss Cakehead and the cocktails are being created by James Dance of Loading, a Falmouth based internet café and games arcade.
Commenting on the collaboration with Miss Cakehead James says:

“For Eat Your Heart Out the real challenge was to try and make some drink that worked with the anatomical nature of the event, focusing on bodily fluids being too limiting. Instead I took a crime scene body outline as inspiration and tried to cover every area of the body. Of course cocktails such as the ‘Stool Sample’ and ‘Urine’ were so obvious I could not resist including them. As with the cakes each drink will be disgusting to look they will all taste amazing, horror being in peoples minds and the connections they make.”

I really wish I could be in London to attend EYHO.  Anyone in or near London, go to this!  It sounds like it’s going to be quite a fun and unique experience.

To find out more about the event please visit:
www.evilcakes.wordpress.com

www.facebook.com/misscakehead

Effects of Hypertension

Effects of Hypertension:



The global ad agency Corbett (CAHG) hired Taylor James, a New York and London based creative production studio, to execute the print campaign for Takeda’s newest hypertension drug. The series of images features a heart-shaped iceberg cracking, kidney-shaped forest being destroyed, and a hurricane in a head-shaped body of water to depict the effects of hypertension on the body. The images were created using a combination of stock photography and CG.
I really like the cracking iceberg heart out of all 3 images, it’s a nice concept, but on it’s own might read more emotionally than a disease-state—as in “cold-hearted.” The forest in the shape of an organ has been done before and I don’t think the hurricane image was executed very well. Being in pharmaceutical advertising myself, I always enjoy seeing anatomy incorporated into ad concepts…but I can’t resist critiquing them!

[via Moshita]

Severed Fingers Soap Bars

Severed Fingers Soap Bars:

Keep your hands feeling fresh by washing them with severed fingers! These creepy yet realistic looking human fingers are actually mini soap bars with a wonderful watermelon scent added to them. These severed fingers soap bars go great with serial killer wallpaper, too!

Buy It

$5.00

via Etsy.com

Decapitated Head Bowling Balls

Decapitated Head Bowling Balls:

Heads will roll when you arrive at the bowling alley sporting these disturbing decapitated head bowling balls. These highly detailed bowling balls were created by spray paint gun artist Oliver Paass and are perfect gift idea for the avid bowler with a morbid side.

Buy It

$157.91

via DesignMade[...]

Anatomical Heart Cakes by Conjurer’s Kitchen for OBJECTIFY THIS Show

Anatomical Heart Cakes by Conjurer’s Kitchen for OBJECTIFY THIS Show:



Street Anatomy has teamed up with Annabel de Vetten of UK based Conjurer’s Kitchen to create anatomical heart cakes for our OBJECTIFY THIS exhibition coming up next Friday (September 7) in Chicago.  We are extremely excited for this opportunity to share some anatomical food with the gallery audience on opening night!
Annabel creates a range of creatively unique cakes and other goodies from artistic to anatomical.  She’s one of the fantastic cake makers participating in this years Eat Your Heart Out anatomical bake shop at St. Bart’s Pathology Museum in London.

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