The other day I decided to just play around on the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) explorer pages. Wow! I know how detailed this survey is but when you just start looking at the images instead of the numbers it really hits home. Here is a portion of the sky about the central RA: 115.78059 DEC: 25.83573
and if we zoom in:
and further:
In this image there are countless (well you could count them all!) and loads of galaxies, wow! The beautiful thing is anyone can just go and look at the images, you can use the virtual observatory and do what you like with it. Take a look at:
[SDSS SkyServer]
Krioma.net
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