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thenewenlightenmentage: “Look North of the Big Dipper”: A Tiny Field of View Yields 50,000 Galaxies For over a decade astronomers have been probing a region of the northern sky, not far from the handle of the Big Dipper, that is relatively free of bright stars and the diffuse glow of the Milky Way. The scientists want to take advantage of the clarity of the sky there to peer beyond our galaxy to study remote galaxies in the distant universe. This region, about half the angular size of the full moon, is now known to have over 50,000 galaxies. Continue reading “”Look North of the Big Dipper”: A Tiny Field of View Yields 50,000 Galaxies” »

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“Look North of the Big Dipper”: A Tiny Field of View Yields 50,000 Galaxies

For over a decade astronomers have been probing a region of the northern sky, not far from the handle of the Big Dipper, that is relatively free of bright stars and the diffuse glow of the Milky Way. The scientists want to take advantage of the clarity of the sky there to peer beyond our galaxy to study remote galaxies in the distant universe. This region, about half the angular size of the full moon, is now known to have over 50,000 galaxies.

Continue reading “”Look North of the Big Dipper”: A Tiny Field of View Yields 50,000 Galaxies” »

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    50,000 galaxies X 300,000,000,000 stars/galaxy = 15,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Wow. Considering that there may be 100...
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