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I just read that the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image contains about 10,000 galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.
Found that in an old astronomy magazine and it blew my mind, how do you even begin to process that scale?
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ben_fisher18d ago
Just a picture" is what I used to think too, but that fact about the grain of sand made it click for me.
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nora_webb5118d ago
Sometimes it helps to just look at the night sky for a while. You start to see more stars, and the whole thing feels bigger and quieter. That feeling is the scale, right there.
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