Those pictures are "false" color and detail. They in no way represent what you would see with your eyes if you were standing right in front of the object. Some of them are even manipulated by artists that add things to them.
What you are seeing are a subset of radio waves being represented as human vision color in a non-linear way with additional artistic details.
It is in no way comparable to the ultra deep field. That's optical. This is sub-millimetre (the region between infra-red and microwave). You see entirely different things, and use 'em for entirely different purposes. It's like saying that a Formula 1 car isn't better than a mining truck -- it's a meaningless comparison.
Unless you're just saying that the images aren't as pretty as the Hubble Deep Field, in which case I agree. Things always look prettier in optical than in radio.
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You'd think that would be obvious with a radio telescope...
Unless you're just saying that the images aren't as pretty as the Hubble Deep Field, in which case I agree. Things always look prettier in optical than in radio.
This is just an opinion expressed in an unusual way, right?