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Friday,  12/13/13  05:50 PM

This is what 200,000 galaxies looks like:

It's a thumbnail of an image which is 17,000 x 11,000 pixels (click to enbiggen, by which I mean download a 250MB file).  This picture was taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile, and yeah, it contains 200,000 galaxies, each of which has billions of stars.  Carl Sagan would love it :)