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Here is a picture taken by the Hubble telescope over many days. In a universe that appears to be 13,700 million years old, this picture could be of objects as they appeared when they were only 300 million years old.
As a comparison, if the universe were an 80-year old man, this is a picture as he would have looked when he was 21-months old.
The intensity of the light from these objects was like looking at a firefly on the moon.
Most of the lights you see in this picture are galaxies. A galaxy is composed of millions of stars. It is mind boggling to look at all the points of light and realize that each one is actually millions of stars. Since light from those stars has taken 13.4 billion years to reach us, many of those stars probably no longer exist.
Posted by Ted at March 23, 2004 8:58 PM