Just read that the Hubble deep field photo has like 10,000 galaxies in it

I was looking at the Hubble deep field image again last night and read that it covers an area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. That tiny little patch contains roughly 10,000 galaxies, each with billions of stars. It kinda blew my mind that we're looking back billions of years into the past just from one small spot. Has anyone else tried counting or identifying specific galaxies in that image?

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amybarnes1mo ago

Those galaxies are just tiny specks, not really worth trying to count individually.

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sean_walker451mo ago

Ain't every single one of those tiny specks a whole universe full of stars and planets?

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