The Hubble telescope was aimed at a piece of the sky about the size of a dime at 75 feet, or a grain of sand held at arm's length.* It appeared to be empty -- but see what is really there -- the farthest we've ever seen into the universe. One hundred billion galaxies in the universe, each containing more than a billion stars -- more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.
Four minutes well spent.
There are a few YouTube videos; this was a least obnoxious I could find quickly. I want to know why it is that astronomer types have to put in oooga-wooga music. The images are mystifying enough. So stop it already.
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* The entire sky contains 12.7 million times that area.
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