When the Hubble Space Telescope first began to send images back to earth, astronomers pointed it toward the emptyist part of the sky they could find.

This image was exposed over 11 days at a spot 1/10th the diameter of the full moon or like "peering through an 8-foot long straw" pointed at a part of the sky that is, as far as we can see with the naked eye, totally black.

There are over 10,000 entire galaxies in this image, some of them over 13 billion years old, and their light is just reaching us.

We hardly have a clue about the true nature of the incomprehensibly huge universe we find ourselves in.

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