Hubble’s First Frontier Field Finds Thousands of Unseen, Faraway Galaxies

The primary target is Abell 2744, a cluster of galaxies 3.5 billion lightyears away. But galaxies  up to 12 billion lightyears distant are visible, many brightened and enlarged due to gravitational lensing from the foreground galaxies.

Various resolution images can be downloaded HERE.

Every speck of light here is an entire galaxy… some 1/10,000 the mass of the Milky Way, some 100 times more massive. But if you assume that every little blip is a billion stars, seen as they were anywhere from 3.5 to 12 billion  years ago, you can’t help be feel a little… impressed.