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Originally Posted by cl8ton

I routinely cruise the Nasa Hubble pics...this is one of their latest from Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF)
The two bright spots are 10 billion light years from Earth, this is a patch of night sky that is absolutely blank when viewing from Earth.

Yeah, it's amazing. Our solar system is just a tiny little spec in the Milky Way galaxy. According to Wikipedia, the estimate for the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy is somewhere between 200 Billion and 400 Billion stars. They believe that the next closest galaxy, Andromeda has a Trillion stars. There are at least 25 galaxies in that photo, and that photo is a tiny little section of sky. That's a lot of galaxies, and in turn, a mind boggling number of stars.