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The European Southern Observatory just released a picture that I can only call astonishing: the deepest ground-based look into the universe ever undertaken [ESO press release]. It’s part of the Chandra (X-Ray Observatory) Deep Field South, an effort to map out distant regions of the Universe across the entire spectrumwith incredible resolution and depth.

The image is mostly in the near ultraviolet, or UV. It’s a total of 55 hours of observations.
Edit: And, now I see Fraser's already covered it in Universe Today, with link in topic Deepest Ultraviolet Image Shows a Sea of Distant Galaxies, that didn't get hit in any of my pre-posting searches. Oh, well. It's still pretty.
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Those dots you saw above? Those aren’t stars, they’re galaxies. Thousands of them. Tens of thousands. I don’t know how many, exactly. A lot.

Scanning the full-res image is incredible. There’s so much to see! Each dot, each smudge, is a full-blown galaxy, a collection of billions of stars.
Those kinds of photos always blow me away. It is mind-boggling when you think about how big the Universe is.
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It's even more mind boggling when you hear that all those Galaxies, and every other galaxy, is being pulled in one direction by some unknown mass that is not only farther away than the known Universe, but massive enough to pull everything in the known universe towards it.

Or so they say.
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