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otakon: it's something the american government was working on solving over 50 years ago.. they tried as hard as they could.. snake.. there's no easy way to say this, but.. there just wasn't enough data..

snake: they have to be out there

It was made by pointing the hubble telescope at the same part of the sky for 23 days of total exposure time, spread across 10 years. The hubble telescope is in orbit around earth, so it can only collect the light when the earth isn't in the way.

You wouldn't be able to see any of these with the naked eye. They are so far away, they're too faint for our eyes to see. On top of that, this entire image is a very small section of the sky.

There isn't anything special about this section of space to have so many galaxies. The angle was picked because there are no stars in the way to glare up the exposure.