Or to be more accurate, our local “neighborhood” of the universe:
To put this in perspective, it shows the closest 400,000 galaxies to our own, out of an estimated 100 billion or more. Each containing as many as 100 billion stars. Is that not humbling and mind-boggling?
With thanks to the blog Worlds Without End where I found this.
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