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Also, the bible mentions a part of the heavens that are empty. Since the invention of the telescope, we have confirmed that it exists, and the location (to the north, relative from the earth, or looking from the earth’s view toward our north polar region).

Then how do you explain Open cluster NGC 188? Or Galaxy NGC 3172 among other objects?

Galaxy NGC 3172 makes Galaxy NGC 1586 look like a cap pistol.

The point of my post was not comparing the size of objects, but the posters claim the northern/polar region from earth, was, "Empty".

Galaxy NGC 3172 makes Galaxy NGC 1586 look like a cap pistol.

Obscure reference to Seinfeld quote about a 12 gauge shotgun making an 11 gauge look like a cap pistol. 1586 is 1/2 of 3172!

I did not claim the north sky was empty. I said, there is an empty space or area in the north sky.

I particular, I believe it’s behind/around Polaris. If we look around any object in space, and we continue to “zoom in” by increasing our resolution power of our device (currently hubble is about as good a visible light gets) we continue to see more structure.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2006-02-a-print.jpg

The above is an image of the Polaris group (from hubble), that has no visible structure in the background. Note: this does not prove anything unless we continue to improve our resolution and can continue to see structure everywhere else other than in/around Polaris.

Now this is an great point of discussion — is there or is there not a uniform (loose definition here) distribution of mass in the universe? i.e. are there a empty vector through our universe?