time for this image was 11.3 days using the Hubble Space Telescope. Incredible stuff. Oh, and I know
that the different colors are just due to artist rendering, but it's still amazing!
Image and content source: Hubble Site.
To give some perspective, here's our galaxy: the Milky Way. Earth is on the Orion-Cygnus Arm, aka the
Orion Spur. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, which means that it has a bar shaped center made up of stars. There's a whopping 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy alone and on top of that, there are at least that many planets to orbit some of those stars.
Image and content source: Wikipedia. Yeah, I know but I was too lazy to search for a better reference.
This photo is in reference to blue straggler stars, which are circled in green. However, I'm not interested
in that at the moment. I just thought this was a cool picture that gives a closer view of the stars in a
portion of the Milky Way.
Image source: Science Daily.
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