I really love this image.

How many stars do you think we're seeing in this image? I figure if each galaxy has 100 billion stars (conservative estimate), and there's at least 1000 galaxies (again, probably an understatement), then we're seeing at least 100 trillion stars? That's a mindboggling number. How big is the field of view here?

And the funny thing is that given the distances involved (hundreds of milllions or billions of lightyears), I'd suppose that most of the stars that we're actually seeing here are long dead by now.