To: SunkenCiv
As they say on TV, every speck you see is another galaxy.
4 posted on
06/05/2014 4:21:29 AM PDT by
ComputerGuy
(BS, MS, PhD and a BMF besides)
To: ComputerGuy
Looks a lot like Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2013.
5 posted on
06/05/2014 5:10:07 AM PDT by
Slambat
To: ComputerGuy
As they say on TV, every speck you see is another galaxy. Wonder if they have any liberals...
7 posted on
06/05/2014 5:35:04 AM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: ComputerGuy; TheOldLady
There are actually three stars visible in the image which are in the immediate foreground and reside in our Milky Way galaxy: the one highlighted by Lady and two more in the upper-left. They're distinguishable by the spikes associated with them, which are camera artifacts. Every other object is a distant galaxy.
Astronomers selected this portion of the sky for their very long exposure precisely because of the near-total absence of intervening objects. Its point was to discover just how many very faint and distant galaxies really exist. Every tiny faint color-spot is an entire galaxy, averaging two hundred billion stars each!
12 posted on
06/05/2014 10:28:54 AM PDT by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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