Hubble was pointed at an area of sky with only a couple of faint stars in this galaxy.
Thus, everything here in this tiny patch of sky, other than the obvious stars, are galaxies.
Give your mind some time to adjust…
Like to know how big, big can be? Zoom out from the local group of stars…
I love NASA’s detailed images but why don’t they make them explorable? Here are some of my favourites in a zoomable format.
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html
Just a fantastic visualisation of how big space is. As Douglas Adams (PBUH) said, its really big.
And a couple more:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/41/video/b/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/cosmology/distant%20galaxies/2004/07/video/b/
Evolution a ‘theory’?
A scientific theory is not a guess or an approximation but an extensive explanation developed from well-documented and reproducible sets of data based on repeated observations of natural processes (Stephen J. Gould, 1994).
Another one; as Theodosius Dobzhansky said “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
