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Galaxies like grains of sand. A tiny part of the sky, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope's Deep Field survey. Almost every smudge in this image is a distant galaxy.


Image courtesy NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team

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