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This small slice of the night sky contains 48,741 galaxies
This image makes me feel so incredibly small. Each of these 48,741 dots represents a galaxy. Each galaxy is a collection of billions of stars. The stars themselves trap untold planets, asteroids, and possibly even life in their gravitational clutches. But this image, which is just one-twentieth of the night sky, is a mere pinprick of a window into the universe. The universe is thought to be 93 billion light-years wide. The width of this image is 6 billion light-years.
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Truly amazing.
I agree. It's really hard to wrap one's mind around such vastness.