Starship Asterisk*

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/06/video/

I wonder how many galaxies there actually are. In the site above Hubble pans across a small area of sky to reveal 50000 galaxies. if you play the video; almost every dot you see is another galaxy.

Orin

[b] http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090609.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080708.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080425.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070608.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061011.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050316.html[/b]

[quote=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._E._Markarian"]

<<Benjamin (Benik) Jegischewitsch Markarjan (* 29. November 1913 in Shahumyan, Armenia; † 29. September 1985) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's chain was named after him, when he discovered it in the mid 1970s. He is also the namesake of a catalog of compact, optically bright galaxies (including both starbursts and AGN) known as Markarian galaxies.>>[/quote]
[b] http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021007.html[/b]