In 1995 scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The location was apparently empty and the whole endeavor was risky - what if anything was going to show up? But what came back was nothing short of spectacular: an image of over 1500 galaxies glimmering in a tiny sliver of the universe. Alex Hofeldt helps us understand the scale of this image.
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