Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Something Different


Ran across this today ....

This is a picture taken by the orbiting Hubble Telescope at a black spot in the sky, covering an area of a grain of sand held arm's length away. Yes, that tiny an area. Yes, at what was "black sky".


The image contains 3000 galaxies. Galaxies. For those that don't remember basic astronomy, a galaxy contains somewhere between 10 million to 1 trillion stars.

And there are 3000 of these galaxies in this picture.

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