This is probably the most amazing image I have seen on the internet.
Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble view is yielding new clues about the universe's youth, from its "pre-teen" years to young adulthood...
This uneven distribution of galaxies traces the concentration of dark matter, an invisible web-like structure stretching throughout space. Galaxies form in areas rich in dark matter.
Among the discoveries so far in this galactic tapestry are a giant red galaxy with two black holes at its core; several new gravitational lenses — galaxies whose gravity bends the light from background galaxies into multiple images; and a rogues' gallery of weird galaxies that should keep astronomers busy for a long time trying to explain them.
I highly recommend you download a full resolution version like the one here and open it with your image viewing software to really look at this amazing image.
Remember, the image represents a tiny strip of the sky at a magnification that mean every point of light or smudge you see represents a galaxy or galaxy cluster.
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